What's special about your birthday?

**Martin** · 06-15-2008, 05:17 PM

Just a random thought I was having. We all know of the Official TFF Birthday Thread - see link here but what I was wondering was... do you know of anything that may interest us about your birthday? It could be something family-related perhaps, or maybe a celebrity having the same day or even major world events that have happened on the day you were born. It doesn't have to be year specific. So all you need do is tell us.

I was born on the 18th of August which is a day I share with Edward Norton (of American Hixtory X and The Incredible Hulk fame) and Christian Slater, coincidentally both of which were born in the same year, 1969.

Events-wise Helium was discovered in 1868, and in 1920 the 19th Constitutional Amendment was ratified which ensured the right for women's suffrage.

So if you know of anything, why not spill

EDIT: Also Roman Polanski was born on my birthday too.

**Sinister** · 06-15-2008, 05:23 PM

I was born on February second during one of the greatest winter storms of Kentucky in the last four decades. They had amazing trouble getting my mother to a hospital and once they got there, there was no way to leave for a day and a half.

February second also happens to be Groundhog's day, which means jack to me, but people enjoy making jokes about it, I have noticed.

Other than that I was also two weeks late, there's not much to tell.

-Sin

Govinda · 06-15-2008, 05:56 PM

My birthday is interesting because, at present, I have been nineteen for roughly an hour and a half. I was quiet when I was born, completely silent. My dad likes to tell the story every now and again. My birth was a 'mother and baby in extreme distress' situation, and after 24 hours my mum got one of the best c-section teams in the country to come and excavate me, as the hospital we were in was a teaching hospital and this lot were on tour or something. I cost the NHS over £10,000 or something near that. So, nineteen years and an hour and a bit ago, I was totally new. I was a silent baby, which my dad said freaked him out a lot at the time. I just sat there and stared silently at everything, apparently. I guess I must've been pretty high on all the shit my mother'd been pumped with in the preceding 32 hours.

Other than that, it's near the very middle of the year. Weather's usually mild. Probably someone famous born on it. Hopefully they played guitar.

**Craven** · 06-16-2008, 12:11 AM

Originally Posted by FFGuru

I was born on the 18th of August which is a day I share with Edward Norton (of American Hixtory X and The Incredible Hulk fame) and Christian Slater, coincidentally both of which were born in the same year, 1969.

Events-wise Helium was discovered in 1868, and in 1920 the 19th Constitutional Amendment was ratified which ensured the right for women's suffrage.

I was actually born on 18th August too! I'll try to find some more interesting facts ^^.

It turns out that August the 18th is International Lighthouse Day. Go figure? XD.

I was also born on the same day as Riko Narumi, a Japanese actress.

Interesting.

**winterborn86** · 06-16-2008, 01:01 AM

Ok, i googled my birthday which is 11 december and found that on that date in 1941 Germany and italy declared war on the US,
Apollo 17 became the 6th mission to land on the moon (1972)

Births
1974 Ray mysterio - american wrestler
1958 Nikki sixx - american muscian (motley crue)1
1939 Tom hayden - americn politician

**Rasler** · 06-16-2008, 01:06 AM

I was born on "Pope Death Day," May 12.

1003 - Pope Silvester II
1012 - Pope Sergius IV

**Unknown Entity** · 06-16-2008, 07:53 AM

I share my birthday, 30th of Jan, with many famous people lol! The list I found was LONG!

What I found interesting was that King Charles I of England was beheaded on my brithday... Hmmm... AND I have the same birthday as Phil Collins... "I've been waiting for this moment... For all my life..."

Anyways, this is what I got doing a Wiki:

January 30 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A King was beheaded 343 years before I was born... Wow, sends a chill down my spine - but I've known that fact a while from a similar thread lol! But I found out more this time... Thanks FFGuru!

**Mr Spike** · 06-16-2008, 08:07 AM

August 22nd:

Battle of Bosworth Field (also the setting for the first ever episode of blackadder!!)
The first ever air raid.....
The first ring of neptune is discovered.

I love wikipedia. I'm well chuffed to have ben born on a millstone of blackadder as well!!

**mjrouse** · 06-16-2008, 08:21 AM

my birthday is Dec 6. and its kind of a boring day. nothing like spectacular happened on that day that i could find but of well. i f i was born a day later tho it would have been on pearl harbor lol

**Usagy** · 06-16-2008, 09:14 AM

29th of august..

1533: Pizarro executes last Incan emperor

Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro executes Atahuallpa, the last Incan emperor. High in the Andes Mountains of Peru, the Inca built a dazzling civilization that thrived for three centuries. Although they had no writing system, they had an elaborate government, great public works, and a brilliant agricultural system. However, 180 Spanish conquistadors led by Pizarro destroyed the civilization. After winning Emperor Atahuallpa's trust, Pizarro laid an ambush for the Inca leader and his army. Buckling under an assault by the terrifying Spanish artillery and cavalry, thousands of Incas were slaughtered. Pizarro imprisoned Atahuallpa, exacted a room full of gold as ransom for his life, and then treacherously executed him.

Also..

1997
The British Government invites members of Sinn Fein to take part in the Northern Ireland peace talks for the first time.
1981
Vandals slash the picture of Diana, Princess of Wales hanging at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
1966
British group The Beatles give their last live concert performance to a crowd of around 25,000 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, USA.
1964
The musical 'Mary Poppins' starring Julie Andrews and **** Van Dyke goes on official release.
1949
The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb - although news of the test explosion isn't announced for another three weeks
1943
World War II: Denmark abandons its policy of co-operation with German invasion forces with the start of a popular uprising which includes the scuttling of the remaining 30 ships of the Danish Navy.
1929
German airship Graf Zeppelin completes a 21 day voyage around the world.
1916
World War I: General Hindenburg is appointed German Chief of Staff.
1897
Star of David becomes the official emblem of Jews throughout the world.
1885
The first motorcycle is patented by Gottlieb Daimler in Germany.
1882
The England cricket team loses to Australia, in England, for the first time. An 'obituary' printed in the Sporting Times, talks of 'the Ashes' of English Cricket being taken back to Australia. Test Series between the two countries are now played for 'The Ashes'.
1842
Britain and China sign the Treaty of Nanking - ending the Opium War and leasing the Hong Kong territories to Britain.
1835
Founding of the Australian city of Melbourne.
1831
Scientist Michael Faraday demonstrates the production of electricity from magnetism using the world's first transformer - at the Royal Institute in London.
1782
100-tonne British battleship HMS Royal George sinks off Spithead with the loss of more than 900 crew while repairs are being carried out beneath the ship's waterline.
30AD
The date on which dancing girl Salome is said to have been presented by King Herod with a plate bearing the head of John the Baptist.

**Tallulah** · 06-16-2008, 01:13 PM

It's today!

I don't like being 25.

I share my birthday with Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame. (the skinny one)

**Magick 13** · 06-16-2008, 01:40 PM

Hmm... 13th September.

I searched it but so far I've found nothing of interest, just some boring looking stuff really. The only remotely interesting thing about my birthday is that something to do with Nintendo was released some years before on the same date. I don't share it with any celebrities that I recognise... it was obviously a very uneventful day.

...

Actually, I just found out today I share the same birthday as Roald Dahl! Yey, something interesting!

**Chez Daja** · 06-16-2008, 02:40 PM

August 13th...

Last US troops leave Vienam in '72.
Death of Florence Nightingale 1910.
Fidel Castro was born.
1816; apparently a big Earthquake in Scotland...
1961, Berlin Wall goes up.
1977, In London 350 people were injured in a National Front rally in Lewisham.
1941; World War II: German spy Josef Jakobs is the last person to be executed at the Tower of London.
Annie Oakley was born.
Alfred Hitchcock was born.
Sir Basil Spence was born (British Architect).
John Logie Baird was bornb (funny because he died on my boyfriends' birthday. Weird?)

Other than that, there's a bunch of War shit on my birthday.

**Joe** · 06-18-2008, 01:28 PM

well, on January 28th....

1077: Excommunication of Henry IV is lifted
1547: Henry the VIII dies
1573: Articles of Warsaw Confederation signed, sanctioning Freedom of Religion in Poland.
1754: Horace Walpole coins the word "serendipity"
1624: Sir Thomas Warner founds the first English colony in the Carribean, on Saint Kitts.
1724: Peter the Great founds Russian Academy of Sciences, in St. Petersburg
1813: "Pride and Prejudice" first published in the U.K.
1820: Russian expedition discovered the Antarctic continent
1855: First locomotive runs from Atlantic the Pacific Ocean on Panama Railway
1871: Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War ends in French defeat, and an armistice
1878: Yale Daily News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the US
1887: World's largest snowflakes reported in Montana, being 15 inches across, and 8 inches thick (I kind of doubt this, but w/e)
1902: Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington D.C.
1915: Congress creates U.S. Coast Guard
1917: Municipally owned street cars hit the streets in San Francisco
1918: Rebels sieze the capital of Helsinki during the Finnish Civil War
1921: A symbolic "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier installed beneath Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honor the unknown dead of WWI.
1932: Japanese forces attack Shanghai
1934: First ski town in the United States begins operation in Vermont
1935: Iceland becomes first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1938: World Land Speed record on a public road is broken by a driver in a Mercedes-Benz W195
1958: Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks
1980 - USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1986: Space Shuttle Challenger breaks up after liftoff killing all aboard
2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
2004: Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of U.N. Weapons Inspector Dr. David Kelly.

Wow, more than a lot of random stuff has happened on my birthday in the past, lol

**Fluffy** · 06-18-2008, 03:01 PM

My birthday is special in that it's the day my life started to suck.

Other than that, it's the day Julius Caesar was assassinated. And a whole bunch of other stuff, but none if it really stood out.

Ironically enough, it's apparently celebrated in Japan during Hōnen Matsuri, a festival celebrating prosperity and fertility.

**ChloChloAriadne** · 06-18-2008, 08:05 PM

June the Eighteenth.

My cousin was born on the day Steve Irwin died. My other cousin was born on my Father's birthday. I was born two days after dad's birthday.

Wiki says-

1923 - Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.

1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.

And other stuff.

Also, a bunch of people were born. A bunch of people died.

It's also Autistic Pride Day.

**Storm** · 06-19-2008, 10:19 AM

I was born on July 20th 1989. I don't know if anything special happened on that day that year however July 20th 1969 was when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong did his thing!

*goes on google*

Apparently on the the actual year and date of my birth Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it, and Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.

A few other things i've found which are quite interesting:
1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war.
1944 - World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
2003 - Richard Sambrook, the Director of BBC News, reveals that David Kelly was the source of claims that Downing Street had "sexed up" the "Dodgy Dossier". (more the phrasing over the actual event- ha!)

Also:
Alexander the Great was born July 20th 356 BC
Terry Irwin was born July 20th 1964

**Helter Skelter** · 06-19-2008, 12:08 PM

My birthday is on Valentine's Day, and I share it with Simon Pegg.

I win.

**Halie** · 06-19-2008, 12:22 PM

Ooh, Chez, you share a birthday with my baby brother. Haha.

My Birthday - May 15th.

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Births 
1567 - (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
1608 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
1720 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
1749 - Levi Lincoln, Sr., American revolutionary, statesman, politician, and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1820)
1773 - Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (d. 1859)
1786 - General Dimitris Plapoutas, a Revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1864)
1817 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
1848 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926)
1856 - L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919)
1857 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911)
1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
1862 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and narrator (d. 1931)
1890 - Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980)
1891 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
1891 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (d. 1971)
1892 - Jimmy Wilde, boxer (d. 1969)
1895 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
1898 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
1899 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
1901 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
1902 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
1903 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
1905 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
1907 - Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1909 - James Mason, English actor (d. 1984)
1910 - Constance Cummings, British actress (d. 2005)
1911 - Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
1911 - Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (d. 1978)
1912 - Arthur Berger, American composer (d. 2003)
1914 - Turk Broda, ice hockey goaltender (d. 1972)
1914 - Tenzing Norgay, (adopted birthdate) Nepalese Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary to the top of Mount Everest (d. 1986)
1915 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (d. 2006)
1915 - Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter
1915 - Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974)
1918 - Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (d. 2008)
1918 - Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor
1922 - Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
1923 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
1923 - John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
1923 - Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003)
1924 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (d. 1971)
1926 - Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2001)
1926 - Peter Shaffer, English playwright
1930 - Jasper Johns, American painter
1931 - Ken Venturi, American golfer
1935 - Utah Phillips, American labor organizer and folk singer
1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-born actress
1936 - Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist
1936 - Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
1936 - Paul Zindel, American writer (d. 2003)
1937 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
1937 - Trini López, American musician
1938 - Mireille Darc, French actress
1938 - Lenny Welch, American singer
1939 - Dorothy Shirley, British athlete
1940 - Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer
1940 - Don Nelson, American basketball coach, currently of the Golden State Warriors
1941 - K.T. Oslin, American musician
1942 - Jusuf Kalla, vice- president of Indonesia and Chairman of the Golkar Party.
1942 - Doug Lowe, 35th Premier of Tasmania
1944 - Ulrich Beck, German sociologist
1944 - Bill Alter, Missouri State Senator
1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer
1945 - Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese crown
1947 - Graeham Goble, Australian musician, singer/songwriter, and record producer (co-founding member of Little River Band)
1948 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
1948 - Kathleen Sebelius, American politician, governor of Kansas
1948 - Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
1950 - Nicholas Hammond, American actor
1951 - Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1952 - Chazz Palminteri, American actor, writer and director
1953 - George Brett, American baseball player
1953 - Mike Oldfield, English composer
1954 - Robert P. Harrison, American thinker
1955 - Lee Horsley, American actor
1956 - Dan Patrick, American sportscaster
1957 - Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister)
1957 - Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler
1958 - Ron Simmons, American professional wrestler
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)
1959 - Kaokor Galaxy, Thai boxer
1959 - Luis Perez-Sala, Spanish racing driver
1960 - Rob Bowman, American film director
1961 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (d. 2002)
1961 - Melle Mel, American musician
1965 - Raí, Brazilian footballer
1966 - Pete Wiggs, English musician (Saint Etienne)
1967 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
1967 - John Smoltz, baseball player
1968 - Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politician
1968 - Seth Putnam, American musician
1969 - Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player
1969 - Emmitt Smith, American football player
1969 - Asalah Nasri, Syrian singer
1970 - Martin Rossiter, Welsh Musician
1970 - Frank de Boer, Dutch football player
1970 - Ronald de Boer, Dutch football player
1970 - Desmond Howard, American football player
1970 - Rod Smith, American football player
1971 - Phil Pfister, American strength athlete
1972 - David Charvet, French actor
1973 - Pedro Reyes, Mexican engineer
1974 - Vassilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player
1974 - Ahmet Zappa, American musician
1975 - Ray Lewis, American football player
1976 - Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer
1976 - Torraye Braggs, American basketball player
1976 - Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
1976 - Ryan Leaf, American football player
1976 - Tyler Walker, baseball player
1978 - Amy Chow, American gymnast
1978 - Dwayne DeRosario, Canadian footballer
1978 - Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress
1978 - Edu, Brazilian footballer
1978 - David Krumholtz, American actor
1978 - Krissy Taylor, American model (d. 1995)
1980 - Josh Beckett, American baseball player
1980 - Rocky Marquette, American actor
1981 - Patrice Evra, French-Senegalese footballer
1981 - Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player
1981 - Zara Phillips, British royal and eventer
1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
1982 - Alex Breckenridge, American actress
1982 - Veronica Campbell, Jamaican athlete
1982 - Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 - Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
1982 - Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The *****cat Dolls)
1983 - Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
1984 - Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian racing driver
1985 - Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer
1986 - Adam Moffat, Scottish football player
1987 - Ersan İlyasova, Turkish basketball player
1987 - Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina Actress and Singer
1987 - Andrew "Andy" Murray, Scottish tennis player
1990 - Joe Mattock, English Football Player

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Events
1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1514 - Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War.
1567 - Mary Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
1602 - Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.
1618 - Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1701 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
1756 - The Seven Years' War begins when England declares war on France.
1776 - American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
1791 - Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
1792 - War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
1793 - Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.
1796 - First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
1800 - George III survives two assassination attempts in one day.
1811 - Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
1849 - Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily.
1851 - Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
1858 - Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. it is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1869 - Woman's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
1891 - Rerum Novarum, the first document of the Catholic Social Teaching tradition, is published by Pope Leo XIII.
1897 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War.
1905 - Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
1910 - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.
1911 - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
1911 - The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.
1914 - Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1918 - The Finnish Civil War ends.
1919 - The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 a.m., almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
1919 - Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. The responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades. Hasan Tahsin fires the first shot of the Turkish War of Independence.
1920 - Council of Lithuania adjourns as the newly elected Constituent Assembly of Lithuania meets for the first time in Kaunas.
1929 - A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
1932 - The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
1934 - Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
1935 - The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
1936 - Amy Johnson arrives back in England after a record-breaking return flight to Cape Town
1940 - World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
1940 - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1941 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees starts his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak.
1942 - World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
1943 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
1945 - World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
1948 - Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attack Israel.
1951 - The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
1955 - The Austrian Independence Treaty is signed.
1955 - The first ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.
1957 - At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
1960 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
1963 - Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
1970 - President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
1970 - Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
1972 - The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
1972 - In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to be become President.
1974 – Ma'alot massacre: A total of 31 people, including hostage takers, are killed.
1987 - The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
1988 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1990 - Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
1991 - Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.
1997 - The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
2008 - California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

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Deaths
913 - Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz
1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)
1157 - Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
1174 - Nur ad-Din, ruler of Syria (b. 1118)
1381 - Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1585 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
1591 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (b. 1582)
1609 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
1634 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
1698 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
1699 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)
1714 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
1740 - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
1760 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
1773 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710)
1782 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
1879 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
1886 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
1924 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852)
1935 - Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
1937 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (b. 1902)
1945 - Charles Williams, UK writer (b. 1886)
1948 - Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
1954 - William March, American writer (b. 1893)
1956 - Austin Osman Spare, English magician (b. 1886)
1967 - Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
1971 - Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
1978 - Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1982 - Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
1984 - Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher, and pastor (b. 1912)
1986 - Theodore White, American writer (b. 1915)
1986 - Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
1989 - Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)
1991 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
1991 - Ronald Lacey, English actor (b. 1935)
1992 - Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965)
1993 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
1994 - Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (b. 1905)
1995 - Eric Porter, British actor (b. 1928)
1996 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
1998 - Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
2003 - George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)
2005 - Alan B. Gold, Quebec Chief Justice (b. 1917)
2007 - Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
2007 - Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
2008 - Alexander Courage, composer of original Star Trek theme (b. 1919)
2008 - Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
2008 - Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, younger brother of Joey Dunlop (b. 1960)

Code:


Holidays and observances
International Conscientious Objectors' Day
Paraguay - Independence Day. Celebrations for the anniversary of the independence begin on Flag Day, 14 May.
Roman Empire - Mercuralia in honor of Mercury held.
Buddha's Birthday in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea (2005).
United States - Peace Officers Memorial Day.
Slovenia - Day of Slovenian armed forces.
Teacher's Day in Mexico (Día del Maestro) and South Korea (스승의 날).
Nakba Day in Palestinian communities.
In the Roman Catholic Church:
Saint Achillius
Hilary of Galeata
Saint Isidore the Labourer
Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
Saint Reticius
Saint Denise
Saint Dymphna
Saint Hallvard (in Norway)
In the Coptic Church
Athanasius of Alexandria

No, hun. I win.

**Yuki-onna** · 06-19-2008, 05:36 PM

The 18th of June.

1815
Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by British, German, and Dutch forces.

1948
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights. The General Assembly would give it final approval on Dec. 10, 1948.

2008
There was a full moon. HA!!!! It was great. Thanks planetary alignments!

**Strong Bad** · 06-20-2008, 07:21 PM

Haha.. what about the fact that I was born that day? That's probably the most special thing I can think of...

(So was Willie Nelson, many years prior.)

(April 30th, '87.)

**Crazy Chocobo** · 06-21-2008, 02:22 AM

March 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My Birthday isn't shared with many celebrities I don't think.

1955 - Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian
1974 - Eva Mendes, American actress

I think that is all I know, there was a huge list but I had no idea as to who any of them were.

As for events..

SPOILER!!:

Holidays on March 5th..

* Learn from Lei Feng Day in China.
* Approximate beginning of month of jīngzhé in Chinese calendar.
* St Piran's Day - Cornwall's national day.
* Feast of St. Ciarán Saighir, patron of the Diocese of Ossory, in Irish calendar.
* Saint Theophile (d. 195)
* Saint Olivia (d. 308)
* March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Yay?

My Mum was born on March 10th and she shares her Birthday with Osama Bin Laden. Yay Mum!

**Omega Weapon** · 06-21-2008, 06:37 AM

My Birthday - April 2nd:

Events:

Code:

* 68 - Galba, governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Roman emperors begun with Julius Caesar and Augustus.
* 1453 - Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29.
* 1513 - Juan Ponce de Leon sets foot on Florida becoming the first European known to do so.
* 1755 - Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
* 1792 - The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
* 1801 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen - The British destroy the Danish fleet.
* 1804 - Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.
* 1810 - Napoleon Bonaparte marries Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
* 1863 - Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand the Confederate government to release emergency supplies.
* 1865 - American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken - Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.
* 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
* 1900 - The Foraker Act passes through Congress, giving Puerto Ricans limited self-rule.
* 1902 - Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated by a terrorist in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
* 1902 - "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
* 1917 - World War I: The Battle of Vimy Ridge commences when the Canada Corps launches an artillery bombardment of the German trenches. At that time it was the biggest artillery bombardment in history.
* 1917 - World War I: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
* 1917 - The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, takes her seat as a representative from Montana.
* 1930 - Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
* 1945 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established.
* 1962 - The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.
* 1972 - Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s .
* 1972 - Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins - North Vietnamese soldiers of the 304th Division take the northern half of Quang Tri Province.
* 1973 - Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
* 1975 - Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
* 1975 - Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It reaches 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure.
* 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U.S. economy rebound.
* 1982 - Falklands War: The Falkland Islands are invaded by Argentina.
* 1984 - Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched aboard Soyuz T-11, and becomes the first Indian in space.
* 1989 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
* 1991 - The first female Premier of a Canadian province takes office. Rita Johnston succeeds William Vander Zalm, who resigned, as Premier of British Columbia.
* 1992 - In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
* 1997 - Tennessee accepts the 15th Amendment.
* 2002 - Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.
* 2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.
* 2005 - James Stewart Jr. becomes first African American to win a major motor sports event.
* 2006 - Over 60 tornadoes break out, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.

Births:

Code:

    * 742 - Charlemagne (d. 814)
    * 1348 - Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1385)
    * 1527 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
    * 1565 - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1599)
    * 1618 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
    * 1653 - Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England (d. 1708)
    * 1719 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (d. 1803)
    * 1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (d. 1798)
    * 1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (Old style date) (d. 1826)
    * 1781 - Bhagwan Swaminarayan, religious leader (d. 1830)
    * 1788 - Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862)
    * 1798 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (d. 1874)
    * 1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
    * 1812 - Louise-Marie of France, queen of Belgium (d. 1850)
    * 1814 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879)
    * 1827 - William Holman Hunt, English painter (d. 1910)
    * 1838 - Léon Gambetta, French statesman (d. 1882)
    * 1840 - Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
    * 1862 - Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1947)
    * 1867 - Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer (d. 1925)
    * 1869 - Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (d. 1928)
    * 1875 - Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
    * 1884 - Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958))
    * 1891 - Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976)
    * 1900 - Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942)
    * 1902 - Jan Tschichold, German typographer (d. 1974)
    * 1903 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
    * 1907 - Luke Appling, American baseball player (d. 1991)
    * 1908 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)
    * 1910 - Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer (d. 1980)
    * 1912 - Herbert Mills, American singer (The Mills Brothers) (d. 1989)
    * 1914 - Sir Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
    * 1917 - Dabbs Greer, American actor (d. 2007)
    * 1917 - Lou Monte, American singer (d. 1989)
    * 1920 - Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982)
    * 1923 - G. Spencer-Brown, English mathematician
    * 1923 - Clifford Scott Green, American Federal Judge (d. 2007)
    * 1923 - Gloria Henry, American actress
    * 1926 - George MacDonald Fraser, English author (d. 2008)
    * 1926 - Sir Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver, three-time F1 world champion and co-founder of eponymous race team
    * 1927 - Carmen Basilio, American boxer
    * 1927 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
    * 1927 - Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer (d. 1980)
    * 1928 - Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, American cardinal (d. 1996)
    * 1928 - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)
    * 1934 - Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007)
    * 1934 - Brian Glover, British actor and wrestler (d. 1997)
    * 1937 - **** Radatz, American baseball player (d. 2005)
    * 1938 - John Larsson, 17th General of The Salvation Army
    * 1938 - Whirlaway, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1941 Triple Crown Winner (d. 1953)
    * 1938 - Booker Little, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1961)
    * 1939 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984)
    * 1939 - Lise Thibault, Lieutenant-governor of Quebec
    * 1940 - Penelope Keith, English actress
    * 1941 - Dr. Demento, American radio personality
    * 1942 - Leon Russell, American blues-rock pianist/guitarist session musician
    * 1942 - Hiroyuki Sakai, Japanese chef
    * 1945 - Linda Hunt, American actress
    * 1945 - Reggie Smith, American baseball player
    * 1945 - Don Sutton, American baseball player
    * 1945 - Anne Waldman, American poet
    * 1946 - Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist (The Guess Who) (d. 1997)
    * 1947 - Emmylou Harris, American singer
    * 1947 - Camille Paglia, American feminist writer
    * 1948 - Dimitris Mitropanos, Greek singer
    * 1949 - Paul Gambaccini, British television presenter
    * 1949 - Pamela Reed, American actress
    * 1949 - Ron Palillo, American actor
    * 1951 - Ayako Okamoto, Japanese golfer
    * 1951 - Moriteru Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist
    * 1952 - Pat Drummond, Australian singer-songwriter
    * 1952 - Thierry Le Luron, French humorist (d. 1986)
    * 1952 - Leon Wilkeson, American rock bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2001)
    * 1953 - Jim Allister, Northern Irish politician
    * 1953 - David Robinson, American musician
    * 1953 - Debralee Scott, American actress (d. 2005)
    * 1954 - Allan Davis, Australian diplomat
    * 1954 - Susumu Hirasawa, Japanese electropop musician
    * 1955 - Michael Stone, British terrorist
    * 1959 - Juha Kankkunen, Finnish race car driver
    * 1959 - Yves Lavandier, French film director
    * 1959 - Badou Zaki, Morrocan footballer and manager
    * 1960 - Linford Christie, English athlete
    * 1960 - Brad Jones, Australian racing driver
    * 1961 - Christopher Meloni, American actor
    * 1961 - Keren Woodward, English singer (Bananarama)
    * 1962 - Pierre Carles, French documentarist
    * 1962 - Clark Gregg, American actor
    * 1962 - Mark Shulman, American children's author
    * 1963 - Mike Gascoyne, British engineer
    * 1963 - Karl Beattie, English television director and producer
    * 1964 - Pete Incaviglia, American baseball player
    * 1965 - Rodney King, American victim of police brutality
    * 1966 - Bill Romanowski, American football player
    * 1966 - Teddy Sheringham, English footballer
    * 1966 - Garnet Silk, Jamaican singer (d. 1994)
    * 1967 - Greg Camp, American musician (Smash Mouth)
    * 1967 - Helen Chamberlain, British television presenter
    * 1970 - Roselyn Sanchez, Puerto Rican actress
    * 1971 - Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player
    * 1971 - ZEEBRA, Japanese hip hop artist
    * 1972 - Chico Slimani, Moroccoan-British singer
    * 1974 - Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
    * 1975 - Adam Rodriguez, American actor
    * 1976 - Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer
    * 1977 - Jelena Abbou, Serbian fitness model
    * 1977 - Michael Fassbender, Actor
    * 1977 - Aiden Turner, British actor
    * 1976 - Andreas Anastasopoulos, Greek shot putter
    * 1978 - John Gall, American baseball player
    * 1979 - Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5)
    * 1980 - Carlos Salcido, Mexican footballer
    * 1980 - Adam Fleming, English news reporter
    * 1980 - Ricky Hendrick, NASCAR driver and owner (d. 2004)
    * 1981 - Michael Clarke, Australian cricketer
    * 1981 - Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti, American actress
    * 1982 - Marco Amelia, Italian World Cup-winning footballer
    * 1982 - Jeremy Bloom, American skier and football player
    * 1982 - Bianca Chatfield, Australian netballer
    * 1982 - Jack Evans, American professional wrestler
    * 1982 - Leyla Milani, Canadian actress and model
    * 1983 - Felix Borja, Ecuadorian footballer
    * 1983 - Yung Joc, American rapper
    * 1983 - Paul Capdeville, Chilean tennis player
    * 1984 - Meryl Cassie, New Zealand actress
    * 1991 - Taylor Henderson, Australian musician

Deaths:

Code:

    * 1118 - Baldwin I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem (b. circa 1058)
    * 1272 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
    * 1335 - Duke Henry of Carinthia (b. circa 1265)
    * 1412 - Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer (b. ????)
    * 1502 - Prince Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England (b. 1486)
    * 1507 - Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)
    * 1657 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1608)
    * 1657 - Jean-Jacques Olier - French catholic priest, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (b. 1608)
    * 1720 - Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
    * 1742 - James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
    * 1747 - Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684)
    * 1754 - Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
    * 1787 - Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
    * 1791 - Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)
    * 1801 - Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer (b. circa 1761)
    * 1803 - Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician and judge (b. 1721)
    * 1817 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740)
    * 1827 - Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)
    * 1845 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1763)
    * 1865 - General A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
    * 1872 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American painter and inventor of the telegraph (b. 1791)
    * 1882 - Jesse James, American outlaw, shot in the back of the head by Robert Ford (b. 1847)
    * 1902 - Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)
    * 1914 - Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1830)
    * 1922 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
    * 1928 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1868)
    * 1930 - Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
    * 1936 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
    * 1953 - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
    * 1958 - Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900)
    * 1966 - C. S. Forester, English author (b. 1899)
    * 1972 - Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
    * 1972 - Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese Martial Arts Grandmaster (b. 1887)
    * 1972 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
    * 1974 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
    * 1987 - Buddy Rich, American drummer (b. 1917)
    * 1992 - Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
    * 1992 - Juan Gómez González, Spanish footballplayer (b. 1954)
    * 1994 - Betty Furness, American actress (b. 1916)
    * 1995 - Harvey Penick, American golf instructor (b. 1904)
    * 1995 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (b. 1908)
    * 1998 - Rob Pilatus, American model and entertainer (Milli Vanilli) (b. 1965)
    * 2000 - Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (b. 1928)
    * 2001 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
    * 2001 - Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972)
    * 2003 - Edwin Starr, American singer (b. 1942)
    * 2004 - John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer (b. 1913)
    * 2005 - Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
    * 2006 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)

Thank you Wikipedia! ^^

**Walter Sobchak** · 06-25-2008, 07:45 AM

The famous posting The Third of May correlates with my birthday.

I also share a birthday with Machiavelli, Sebastian Shaw, and Joseph Addai. Paul Vario died on the day I was born, too.

Goose · 06-26-2008, 05:12 PM

August 11:

1953 - Born: Hulk Hogan,

2003 - A heat wave in Paris resulted in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), leaving about 144 people dead.

August 11 (best day ever): We get the Hulkster and a bunch of French people die!

Yahaire · 06-26-2008, 05:18 PM

I think my birthday is especial because in Mexico May 5th was the battle in Puebla

**Rikkuffx** · 06-28-2008, 07:11 AM

My bday is july 10th its the 191st day of the year except in leapier lol (it would be the 192nd day)

In 1978 World news tonight first premiered on abc
in the bahamas its their independence day
Dublin was also founded in 988

Also I usually get hurt on my bday(almost every year after my 10th bday) But I think I broke the streak last year cause I was fine.

**Scorpian** · 06-28-2008, 06:47 PM

It means...I HAVEN'T DIED YET!!! =D
But really nothing special ever happened on Nov. 17 1976...

***DragonHeart*** · 07-07-2008, 08:56 AM

I share a birthday with winterborne86, apparently. o.O Same year and everything. Neat, in a creepy twin sort of way.

Other famous people I share a birthday with:

1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
1830 - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (d. 1872 on his birthday) It's over NINE THOUSAND!!! Hahaha
1943 - John Kerry, American politician - Eww!
1966 - Gary Dourdan, American actor - Yay!

And, it's Tango Day in Argentina, woo!

Lots of other stuff happened too, I just haven't heard of most of them.

~DragonHeart~

**Itachi Uchiha** · 07-08-2008, 04:34 AM

well seeing how I don't know the new shortened spoiler code yet (^^;;;;; ), I'll just proved a link to everything that hapens on my birthday. April 5th xD To be honest when I say the list I was a bit shocked. The only thing I knew about my birthday is that Kurt Cobain commited suicide on that day.

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