Stuff that happened on the day you were born.
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Child of Noble Family
April 18:
1775 - Paul Revere's ride on the eve of the American Revolution
1906 - Great San Francisco earthquake
1942 - Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Japan
Birthdays: Lucrezia Borgia (1480), Clarence Darrow (1857), James Woods (1947), Conan O'Brien (1963), David Tennant (1971).
Deaths: Isoroku Yamamoto (1943), Albert Einstein (1955), Dick Clark (2012).
1775 - Paul Revere's ride on the eve of the American Revolution
1906 - Great San Francisco earthquake
1942 - Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Japan
Birthdays: Lucrezia Borgia (1480), Clarence Darrow (1857), James Woods (1947), Conan O'Brien (1963), David Tennant (1971).
Deaths: Isoroku Yamamoto (1943), Albert Einstein (1955), Dick Clark (2012).
I share my birthday with such luminaries as Stephen Fry, Rupert Grint and Jennifer Lien, with the most notable event on the same day being the destruction of Pompeii by Vesuvius (and the concomitant death of the Roman general and scholar, Pliny the Elder).
I share a birthday with Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. Other, less notable such figures include Michael Faraday (cool), Scott Baio (lol), Joan Jett (ok I guess), and Denard Robinson (shares a birth year as well!). On the not-so-good side, Wehrmacht field marshal Wilhelm Keitel was born on my birthday; on the significantly-better side, German anti-Nazi student activist Hans Scholl also shares my birthday. There were also some royals for whom I don't particularly care, like Anne of Cleves, Anne of Austria, and Anne of Vietnam Tự Đức.
My birthday is the anniversary of Selim Yavuz's, Guru Nanak's, and Shaka Zulu's deaths. Nathan Hale, a somewhat well-known American figure from that country's Revolution, died on my birthday. So did George C. Scott and Francisco Coronado.
On my birthday in 1789, Aleksandr Suvorov led his army to victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Rymnik; Suvorov is a Russian national hero and Rymnik is widely regarded to be his greatest battle.
On the other side of the Revolutionary Wars, the First Republic made my birthday its first calendar day (Primidi Vendémiaire) in 1792.
Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion, claimed to have been led to the golden plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon on my birthday in 1823.
Abraham Lincoln announced the preliminary form of the Emancipation Proclamation on my birthday in 1862.
Seven years after that, Wagner premiered the opera Das Rheingold.
On my birthday in 1927, one of the first great sporting events in American history, the "Long Count Fight" between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, ended with a somewhat controversial decision in favor of Tunney.
Ten years to the day before I was born, Iraq invaded Iran.
One year to the day after I was born, the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls was first made public.
My birthday is the anniversary of Selim Yavuz's, Guru Nanak's, and Shaka Zulu's deaths. Nathan Hale, a somewhat well-known American figure from that country's Revolution, died on my birthday. So did George C. Scott and Francisco Coronado.
On my birthday in 1789, Aleksandr Suvorov led his army to victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Rymnik; Suvorov is a Russian national hero and Rymnik is widely regarded to be his greatest battle.
On the other side of the Revolutionary Wars, the First Republic made my birthday its first calendar day (Primidi Vendémiaire) in 1792.
Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion, claimed to have been led to the golden plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon on my birthday in 1823.
Abraham Lincoln announced the preliminary form of the Emancipation Proclamation on my birthday in 1862.
Seven years after that, Wagner premiered the opera Das Rheingold.
On my birthday in 1927, one of the first great sporting events in American history, the "Long Count Fight" between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, ended with a somewhat controversial decision in favor of Tunney.
Ten years to the day before I was born, Iraq invaded Iran.
One year to the day after I was born, the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls was first made public.
According to Wikipedia:
Sounds like a very unlucky day (Nero had Octavia killed later).
Sounds like a very unlucky day (Nero had Octavia killed later).
Perfection
The Great Head.
Bill3000 was born!
Borachio
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20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818).
KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting.
James Homer born. (Who's he? Never heard of him.)
These seem very obscure and not all that interesting to me.
I think I've been cursed with a boring birthday!
KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting.
James Homer born. (Who's he? Never heard of him.)
These seem very obscure and not all that interesting to me.
I think I've been cursed with a boring birthday!
MilesGregarius
Half-baked Renegade
Off the top of my head:
1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge
1396 - The Battle of Nicopolis
1793 - The Connaught Rangers (88th Regiment of Foot) established. (Yank though I be, I'm still proud of my Mayo roots.)
1944 - Final withdrawal of British troops from Arhnem ends Market-Garden
1983 - The Maze Prison Escapes
Shared b-day with William Faulkner, Pedro Almodovar, Scottie Pippin, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge
1396 - The Battle of Nicopolis
1793 - The Connaught Rangers (88th Regiment of Foot) established. (Yank though I be, I'm still proud of my Mayo roots.)
1944 - Final withdrawal of British troops from Arhnem ends Market-Garden
1983 - The Maze Prison Escapes
Shared b-day with William Faulkner, Pedro Almodovar, Scottie Pippin, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Chukchi Husky
Lone Wolf
The only one I know about is that I was born the same day and year as Bow Wow. Sharing the same day but different year is Yuri Gagarin. Events on the day, in 1945 the Bombing of Tokyo begins, 1959 the Barbie makes it's debut, 1961 Sputnik 9 is launched, 1997 an eclipse allows people in China and Mongolia to observe Comet Hale-Bopp, 2011 Space Shuttle Discovery makes it's last landing.
Same here, though apparently nothing major happened on the exact day I was born other than the americans holding a celebration in my honour (or was it something else?
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1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.
1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1952 – Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
1959 – The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
1999 – Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
A day fraught with significance.
I share a birthday with:
Augustus, Roman emperor
Typhoid Mary, Irish-American carrier of Typhoid fever
Friedrich Paulus, German general
Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
And a birth day AND year with:
Shyla Stylez, Canadian porn actress
1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1952 – Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
1959 – The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
1999 – Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
A day fraught with significance.
I share a birthday with:
Augustus, Roman emperor
Typhoid Mary, Irish-American carrier of Typhoid fever
Friedrich Paulus, German general
Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
And a birth day AND year with:
Shyla Stylez, Canadian porn actress
A double rainbow and a new star were seen the day I was born.In the morning the sky turned utterly black without any eclipse.
So just the usual stuff
They have been more or less written out of local history here, except for the few that mutinied in India during the Irish war of Independence.
The image of Irish men in British uniforms oppressing Indians and upholding the empire doesn't sit well with the image of Irish men being oppressed by men in British uniforms..
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
On my birthday the following random stuff happened:
164 BC – Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1386 – Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi,
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (American historical thing)
1694 – Voltaire born
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1905 – Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
1918 – Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
1965 - Bjork born.
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1995 – The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
(excuse or do not excuse or whatever the blatant cut and paste from wikipedia)
My birthday is also Armed Forces Day in Greece and Bangladesh and No Music day
164 BC – Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1386 – Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi,
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (American historical thing)
1694 – Voltaire born
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1905 – Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
1918 – Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
1965 - Bjork born.
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1995 – The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
(excuse or do not excuse or whatever the blatant cut and paste from wikipedia)
My birthday is also Armed Forces Day in Greece and Bangladesh and No Music day
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
Let's see what happened on April 18!
