World events on your Birthday

* 1520 - Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
* 1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
* 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
* 1836 - Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
* 1861 - American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia.
* 1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
* 1869 - Wyoming grants women the right to vote.
* 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
* 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
* 1902 - Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
* 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
* 1907 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
* 1932 - Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
* 1935 - The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, was given to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. This award was given to the best college football player east the Mississippi River.
* 1936 - Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
* 1941 - World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
* 1941 - World War II: Battle of the Philippines - Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
* 1948 - The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today is also International Human Rights Day.
* 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
* 1968 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
* 1978 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
* 1981 - During the Ministerial Session of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels, Spain signes the Protocol of Accession to NATO.
* 1983 - Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
* 1989 - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that peacefully changed the second oldest communist country into a democratic society.
* 1996 - Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
* 2006 - One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.

Dave Abbruzzese played his first show with Pearl Jam on my birthday. (August 23, 1991)

I actually had a lot of US history happen on my birthday....


1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1778 - Treaty of Fort Pitt signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).
1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1814 - Francis Scott Key finishes his The Star-Spangled Banner poem.
1862 - American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
1862 - American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion resulted in the single largest civilian disaster during the war
1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1920 - National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
1956 - Television was first broadcast in Australia.
1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.

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my birthday sucks......

on my birthday in 1647 - Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.

another example of why Hartford sucks.

Nothing incredibly terrific happened on my birthday.
Here are a few..

64 - Great fire of Rome
1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
1968 - The Intel Corporation is founded.
1969 - After a party, Senator Ted Kennedy drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
1972 - Staines air disaster - 118 are killed as plane crashes 2 minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
1984 - McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.

A few years ago I was out of town and couldn't sleep at around 3 in the morning on my birthday. I turned on the news and there was a live report from my hometown- a woman had just been murdered in the Burger King there.

So lots of murder and fire...I guess that's what happens when you share a birthday with Vin Diesel, huh? :rolleyes:

The only one off the top of my head, is a few years ago, there was a train crash in Sydney where 9 people died. I heard the news as I was opening my presents. It was sad thinking here I am having fun, and people are dying. A sad day.

31/01 for the record.

World Trade Centre....blah....

And Ringo Starr joined the Beatles, Star Trek premiered, and the Monkees premiered.