What happened on the date of your birth?

[bhz]

May 12, 2008: Chinese earthquake

[Xious]

Nov. 2

Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

[bobaganuesh_2]

Saddam Hussein's birthday, April 28.

Beat that.

August 23

circa 1977 - Koby Bryant is born

1595 – Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
Death: 2005 – Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)

[yahoozy]

I was born on my parents' anniversary.

[Sunset]

August 2nd 1955 - USSR performs nuclear test

I am one badass.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

On the Wikipedia page, I became more interested in the more obscure crap. My birthday's the day Soviet forces conquered Berlin, the first day of Jack Benny's radio program, and other cool stuff, but here's what I'm going to dump here:
1360 – Yongle, Emperor of China, is born (d. 1424).
1885 – Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1972 – Pandora Boxx, American drag queen and reality tv personality, is born.
1994 – In a bus disaster in Poland, 32 people die.
2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.

As for more interesting births and deaths: I share a birthday with Catherine the Great and David Beckham, and the day was also an anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death.

[aids]

March 29th

Events:

• 88th day of the year
• 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
• 1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
• 1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
• 1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
• 1971 – A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
• 1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
• 1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.

Births:

• 1790 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
• 1867 – Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
• 1943 – Vangelis, Greek musician and composer
• 1964 – Michael A. Jackson, American politician
• 1991 – Hayley McFarland, American actress

Deaths:

• 2005 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)

[enespanol4268]

June 30

1990 - East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.

[Scrivener]

on august 8,

1911, the millionth patent is filed in the US Patent Office
2008, the olympics start in china, which was a very lucky day in china as 8 is their lucky number (8/8/08)
2007, this dude named Joybubbles died. check this dude out, he was pretty cool. i've never heard of phreakers before, but basically, this guy could dial a phone by whistling into it, and get free calls. it's a whole subgenre of hacking.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

2007, this dude named Joybubbles died. check this dude out, he was pretty cool. i've never heard of phreakers before, but basically, this guy could dial a phone by whistling into it, and get free calls. it's a whole subgenre of hacking.

The fact that he died in 2007 should tell you when it was popular, too.
Look up Captain Crunch if this interests you (and you own a time machine).

[otters~1]

14.11.1992

Events.
Pizarro lands in Spain, 1533.
First plane take-off from aboard a ship, 1910.
BBC begins, 1922.
Battle of Ia Drang begins, 1965.

Births.
Mozart, 1719. (I'd rather have Hendrix, but hey.)
Fulton, 1765.
Mendelssohn's sister, 1805.
Monet, 1840.
Nehru, 1889. (First Prime Minister of India. You should know that.)
McCarthy, 1908.
King Hussein of Jordan, 1935. (Beat that, incluye.)
Prince Charles, 1948.
Bon Jovi, 1951.
Yanni, 1951.

[T3chno]

Let's see. October 15th.


533 – Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1764 – Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
1793 – Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and condemned in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
1815 – Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
1863 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1880 – Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
1888 – The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by the investigators.
1894 – The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
1904 – The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
1917 – World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
1928 – The airship, the Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1934 – The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircle Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
1938 – The District of Columbia formally adopts a design for its flag.
1939 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
1944 – The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary.
1945 – World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring poisons himself the night before his execution.
1950 – Korean War: The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducted the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives.
1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
1956 – Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
1965 – Vietnam War: The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages the first public burning of a draft card in the United States to result in arrest under a new law.
1966 – Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1970 – Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
1970 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
1971 – The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
1973 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Gabon are established.
1979 – Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1997 – The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere.
1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
2001 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
2003 – China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
2003 – The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
2005 – Iraqi constitution ratification vote.
2005 – A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
2007 – Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.

[Invalid]

1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.
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