What Happened On Your Birthday?

0270 St. Valentine died, marking Valentines Day (some sources say 269, others 273).

1349 Approximately 2,000 Jews were burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.

1918 Tarzan of the Apes, the first movie featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan character, is released.

About the only interesting ones i could find, lol.

On my birthday, everyone gets chocolate, therefore mine is the best ;D

 

Ha valentines day, nice.

 

when i was born, no important events happened on that day.

 

1809 Edgar Allan Poe, poet, author and literary critic is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

April 20th

1889 Adolf Hitler's birthday

That's about it though. Surprising, considering the day

 

1675 Battle at Turkheim (Colmar) French army beats Brandenburg

This is what happened on mine. A rare event indeed, the French actually beat someone.

 

You forgot to mention world wide high day.

 

1501 Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother they would later marry.

1576 Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).

1576 Spanish defeat Walloons & take Antwerp Belgium

1677 The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary.

1737 The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.

1783 W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 (Mozart) is premiered in Linz, Austria.

1825 The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour.

1839 The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.

1842 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill

1845 The first nationally observed uniform election day in US

1852 Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.

1854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island

1861 The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University

1861 University of Washington founded in Seattle

1862 The Gatling gun patented (Richard J Gatling)

1864 HMS Racehorse in the China Seas. The wreck of this ship, with the loss of a hundred lives, near Chefoo, at the southern entrance of the gulf of Pecheli, the Racehorse, 4, screw gun vessel, 200 horse power, and 695 tons, was built for the Admiralty by Messrs. Wigram and Co.,

1866 Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia

1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall

1873 Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown

1875 "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 dies

1879 James & John Ritty patent the cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in their Dayton, Ohio saloon

1884 Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for first presidential term

1889 Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.

1890 City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.

1899 Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is published.

1918 The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.

1918 World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.

1921 Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria ( Fatherland Altar ) in Rome.

1921 Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler

1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt

1922 In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

1923 Alfred Heineken (Heineken beer) born

1924 Calvin Coolidge is elected the twenty-ninth President of the United States of America.

1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected first US female gov (Wyoming)

1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first female governor in the United States.

1927 Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 states.

1928 Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a poker game.

1939 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland

1939 First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill

1939 US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II

1945 UNESCO is founded.

1946 UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed

1948 T. S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1949 "One Man's Family" premieres on TV

1952 Dwight David Eisenhower is elected the thirty-fourth President of the United States of America.

1952 Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D)

1955 The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.

1956 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest

1956 Israel captures Straits of Tiran from Egypt

1956 Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.

1957 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched

1960 Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable -the last film for both.

1962 In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the final atmospheric nuclear test ever conducted by the United States.

1963 John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line

1965 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH)

1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud

1966 Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works

1966 Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno rivers flood; considering also the contemporary flood of Po River in northern Italy, 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and numerous Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.

1967 Landing craft from USS Navarro (APA-215) rescue 43 men from British SS Habib Marikar aground on a reef at Lincoln Island in the Tonkin Gulf.

1970 Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.

1971 USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636) launches a Poseidon C-3 missile in first surface launch of Poseidon missile.

1973 The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters.

1978 Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U

1979 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)

1979 Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian people, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).

1980 Ronald Reagan (R) beats President Jimmy Carter (R) by a landslide

1980 Ronald Wilson Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States of America.

1981 Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining

1984 Dell is founded.

1984 Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%

1984 Sandinista Front wins the elections in Nicaragua.

1986 Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment.

1986 Democrats gain control over the US Senate

1989 The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.

1990 Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"

1990 Secretary of State James Baker visits US troops in Saudi Arabia

1991 Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain

1993 A China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.

1993 A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be arson.

1993 Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1993 Jean Chrtien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.

1994 San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.

1995 Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.

2001 Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.

2001 The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.

2002 Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress

2003 Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.

2003 The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.

2004 12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Cte d'Ivoire civil war.

2008 Barack Obama is elected as the First African American President of The United States.

2009 My friend Eric Lost his virginity. Worst birthday present.

2011 Important Islamic date - Hajj: November 4 - November 7, 2011

 

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Fuck all that shit, my birthday is famous for April Fools and Daily's trolls.

 

1493 Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily.

Yes...twas a good day that twas.

 

October the #
I seem to be an unlucky influence on the world:

1992 El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.

2001 Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.

2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.

 

1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
1967 – BBC Radio 1 is launched and Tony Blackburn presents its first show; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.

Coolest ones.

 

- 1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.

- 1057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan

- 1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.

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Oh yeah, I was supposed to edit in my birthday... August 15th.

 

Don't forget to post the day you were born!