What happened on YOUR birthday

[Japanrocks12]

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Apparantly, on my birthday a few significant things happened:


2002 Lonnie Donegan, the singer-guitarist who started the skiffle music craze (and a major influence on The Beatles), dies of a heart attack at age 71.

1995 Nearly 900 people lose their lives as Typhoon Angela rips through the Philippines.

1992 Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Illinois) becomes the first African-American woman elected to the US Senate.

1992 Democrat Bill Clinton is elected US president by defeating the incumbent, George Bush.

1990 Broadway actress Mary Martin dies in Rancho Mirage, CA, at age 76.
Did you know? Mary played the title role in the 1955 TV production of Peter Pan. She was also the mother of actor Larry Hagman.

1972 Singer Carly Simon and singer-guitarist James Taylor are married in New York City.

1964 US President Lyndon B. Johnson wins reelection over Republican opponent Barry Goldwater.

1957 The Sputnik II Earth satellite is launched by the USSR with a dog, Laika, as passenger.
Did you know? The satellite was not designed for a safe landing; Laika was put to sleep a week into the mission. Sputnik II stayed aloft for nearly six months.

1936 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins by a landslide in his first of three reelection bids.

1908 Republican William Howard Taft is elected US president over William Jennings Bryan (who also lost 12 years earlier).

1903 Panama declares its independence from Colombia.

1896 Republican William McKinley is elected US president over noted orator William Jennings Bryan.

1868 Ulysses S. Grant, running on the Republican ticket, is elected US president over challenger Horatio Seymour.

Was I born on the basis of political events or what?

 

[WildFire]

1995 Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) is paralyzed after an accident during an equestrian event in Charlottesville, VA.

1987 I was born

1896 255 people are killed when a twister strikes St. Louis, MO and East St. Louis, IL.

Well, my birthday sucks.

 

[The Yankee]

In 1189 Henry II King of England (1154-89), dies at 56.
In 1483 England's King Richard III crowned.
In 1535 Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason.
In 1796 Nicholas I Russia, Tsar (1825-55), born.
In 1785 Congress resolves US currency named "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage.
In 1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia.
In 1885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur.
In 1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed.
In 1925 Bill Haley Mich, (andthe Comets-Rock Around the Clock), born.
In 1927 Janet Leigh, actress, She's in the shower (Psycho), born.
In 1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown, in NY.
In 1945 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter.
In 1945 Burt Ward LA Calif, actor (Robin-Batman T.V. Show), born.
In 1946 Sylvester Stallone NYC, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra), born.
In 1964 Beatles' film Hard Day's Night premiers in London.
In 1964 Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain (Natl Day).
In 1966 Malawi becomes a republic.
In 1971 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71.
In 1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India.
In 1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico.
1988: High death toll feared in oil rig blaze.
An out-of-control fire on a North Sea oil rig is feared to have claimed the lives of most of those on board.

1978: Eleven die in sleeper train inferno
Seventeen injured in a blaze on the Penzance to Paddington sleeper train.

1992: Riot police confront French truckers
The French Government mobilises the army and police to remove the lorries blocking the nation's major roads.

2000: Prime Minister's son arrested for drunkenness
The Prime Minister Tony Blair's eldest son, Euan, is arrested for being drunk and incapable.

1976 Women inducted into U.S. Naval Academy
1967 Civil war in Nigeria
1944 The Hartford Circus Fire
1942 Anne Frank family takes refuge

1415: Religious reformer Jan Hus is burned at the stake as a heretic by the Catholic Church.
Learn more about Jan Hus.

1699: Pirate captain William Kidd is arrested in Boston. Sent to trial in England, he is convicted and hanged two years later.
Learn more about William Kidd.

1854: The Republican Party is founded as an antislavery party by former members of the Whig, Democratic, Free Soil, and Know Nothing parties.
Learn more about the Republican Party.

1885: French biologist Louis Pasteur uses his newly developed vaccine against rabies to save the life of a young boy, Joseph Meister, who was bitten by a rabid dog.
Learn more about Louis Pasteur.

1917: Arab forces rebelling against the Ottoman Empire capture the port of Al 'Aqabah with the help of British adventurer T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia.
Learn more about T. E. Lawrence.

1957: Tennis player Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win the Wimbledon championship. She wins the U.S. Open later that year and repeats the performance in 1958.
Learn more about Althea Gibson.


And born on this day...

Sylvester Stallone, actor and director (1946)

John Paul Jones, naval commander (1747)

Frida Kahlo, painter (1907)

Bessie Head, antiapartheid writer (1937)

Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist (1937)


Bill Haley (1925 - 1981)
Nancy Reagan (1923 - )
Janet Leigh (1927 - )Geoffrey Rush (1951 - )


And sadly enough....George W. Bush (1946 - )



Edited to make it a little neater and not as much space between some of the items.

 

[privatehudson]

I seem to have been born on a day of bad luck

1981 IRA member Bobby Sands dies in a Northern Ireland prison after a 66-day hunger strike.

1966 Willie Mays, of the SF Giants, hits the 512th homer of his career to become the greatest NL home run hitter in history (at that time).

1961 Alan B. Shepard, Jr. becomes the first American in space, during a 15-minute ride aboard the Mercury capsule Freedom 17.
Uncle Woody sez: Shepard later went on to command the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission.

1955 West Germany becomes a sovereign state.

1925 John Scopes is arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.

1904 Boston Red Sox pitcher Cy Young hurls a perfect game against the Philadelphia Americans.
Uncle Woody sez: There was cause to celebrate -- this was only the third perfect game ever pitched in the major league.

1893 An economic crisis hits the US today: 15,000 businesses fail, boosting unemployment into double digits.

1891 Carnegie Hall (then called the Music Hall) is dedicated in New York City.

1862 Mexican forces defeat French invaders under the command of Napoleon III at the Battle of Puebla.
Uncle Woody sez: The victory is now delebrated throughout Mexico (and at restaurants throughout the US) as Cinco de Mayo.

1847 The American Medical Association (AMA) is founded in Philadelphia.

1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on St. Helena Island.

I can add also from my own knowledge that on the day I was born in 1979 it snowed and also Margaret Thatcher took power officially On my first Birthday the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy.

 

[The Yankee]

Originally posted by Japanrocks12
[BWas I born on the basis of political events or what? [/B]

That's what you get with an early November birthday.

 

[The Yankee]

According to the link that Japanrocks has up there.....

1998 Cowboy actor and singer Roy Rogers dies in Apple Valley, CA, at age 86.

1981 E.I. Dupont announces they are purchasing Conoco for $7%20 billion.

1971 Trumpeter and singer Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong dies at age 69.

1957 Althea Gibson becomes the first Native American woman to win the Wimbledon singles tennis title.

1932 The cost of a US first class letter jumps an astonishing 50% (to 3 cents).

1919 A British dirigible makes the first airship crossing of the Atlantic, landing at Roosevelt Field in New York.

1885 Scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tests his rabies vaccine on a boy bitten by a rabid dog.

1777 British troops capture Fort Ticonderoga, NY, during the Revolutionary War.

1266 Norway gives Man and Hebrides Islands to Scotland.

1978 Tamera Mowry - actress

1978 Tia Mowry - actress

1959 Jon Keeble - drummer (Spandau Ballet)

1953 Nanci Griffith - singer

1952 Shelley Hack - actress

1952 Grant Goodeve - actor, TV host

1946 Sylvester Stallone - actor, screenwriter

1946 Fred Dryer - football player, actor

1945 Burt Ward - actor

1945 James Naughton - actor

1945 Rik Elswit - guitarist (Dr. Hook)

1937 Ned Beatty - actor

1931 Della Reese - actress

1927 Pat Paulsen - comedian

1927 Janet Leigh - actress

1927 Bill Haley - singer (Bill Haley and His Comets)

1925 Merv Griffin - entertainer, TV host, producer

1924 Darrell Royal - football player, coach

1921 Nancy Reagan - actress, wife of 40th US President Ronald Reagan

1918 Sebastian Cabot - actor

1915 LaVerne Andrews - singer (The Andrews Sisters)

1909 Andrei Gromyko - Russian president

1832 Maximilian - Emperor of Mexico

1747 John Paul Jones - US naval hero

 

[WillJ]

Interesting site. Beethoven shares my birthday, and the Battle of the Bulge began on my birthday. I would bother to post all of the events that are listed, but I seriously doubt anyone will actually read them. (If you're interested, my birthday is December 16.)

 

[andrewgprv]

2003 Tex Schramm, former Dallas Cowboys president and general manager, dies at his Dallas, TX home at age 83. Schramm's contributions to NFL football include the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, instant replay, in-helmet radios, and the Cowboys' annual Thanksgiving Day game.

1997 Fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot and killed at his home in Miami.

1996 The all-news network MSNBC, a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC, debuts on cable TV and the Internet.

1994 Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger has his hand- and footprints placed in wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

1991 Actor and TV host Bert Convy dies of a brain tumor in Los Angeles at age 57.

1975 Soviet cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 19 and NASA astronauts aboard Apollo 18 lift off today for an historic rendezvous in space two days later.


1971
US President Richard Nixon announces that he will make an historic visit to the People's
Republic of China.
(photo credit: NARA)


1968 Commercial passenger air travel service begins between the US and the USSR.

1965 NASA scientists unveil close-up photos of Mars, taken by the Mariner IV space probe.

1916 Airplane maker Boeing is founded in Seattle.

1876 St. Louis pitcher George Washington Bradley throws the first no-hitter in baseball history, as his team beats Hartford, 2-0.

1870 Georgia becomes the last Confederate state to rejoin the Union, following the US Civil War.

 

[raen]

1997 Paul McCartney is knighted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.

1991 Janet Jackson signs a recording contract with Virgin Records worth $40 million for 3 albums.

1990 Lithuania declares its independence from the USSR.

1985 Mikhail Gorbachev succeeds Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet President.

1977 Three Islamic ambassadors help negotiate the release of nearly 150 hostages held in Washington, DC, by renegade Muslims.

1970 Perry Mason author Erle Stanley Gardner dies.

1959 Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, premieres in New York City.

1953 A US Air Force B-47 accidentally drops an atomic bomb over South Carolina. (Luckily, the bomb had internal safeguards to prevent it from detonating.)

1941 The 'Lend-lease' bill is signed, allowing the US to provide supplies to countries fighting the Axis, during WWII.

1938 Hitler's Nazi troops invade Austria, during WWII.

1932 Spain legalizes divorce.

1930 Babe Ruth signs a two-year deal with the NY Yankees worth $80,000.

1930 William Howard Taft becomes the first US President to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

1888 400 people die when a freak blizzard ravages the northeastern US.

1847 American pioneer John 'Johnny Appleseed' Chapman dies, near Ft. Wayne, IN.

1811 The first wedding is held in the White House, as the sister-in-law of James Madison marries a Supreme Court Justice.

1810 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Marie Louise of Austria by proxy.

1702 The first British daily newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published.

1314 Jacques deMolay, the last leader of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake in France.

 

[willemvanoranje]

June 13th:

1996 Members of the Freemen anti-government group surrender to the FBI in Montana, ending an 81-day standoff.

1977 James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is recaptured after his escape from prison.

1966 The US Supreme Court issues the historic Miranda Decision, requiring suspects to be advised of their rights during arrest.

1956 The British end their occupation of the Suez Canal.

1944 Germany launches V-2 rocket bombs against Britain during WWII.

1927 New Yorkers turn out by the thousands to honor aviator Charles Lindbergh with a ticker-tape parade.

1907 Pennsylvania adopts its state flag.

1898 Canada's Yukon Territory is organized.

1888 The US Department of Labor is created by an act of Congress.

1777 The Marquis de Lafayette lands at Georgetown, SC, to fight for the colonists during the Revolutionary War.

I can add that somewhere late 19th century the Bavarian king Ludwig II, famous for his castle Neu Schwanstein, presumibly committed suicide by drowning himself in a lake nearby, and there where 2 football groupmatches played in one of the World Cup '86 in Mexico, and I think Denmark - Germany was one of them. Denmark won.

 

[jack merchant]

Nothing much interesting happened on my birthday except Princess Diana died (couldn't she have picked another day ? ), Cleopatra committed suicide and, more brightly, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first black Supreme Court Justice in 1967.

I share my birthday, August 30, with Cameron Diaz .

 

[MCdread]

The only thing really important that happened on by birthday is not even in the list... 2003: FC Porto wins the UEFA Cup.

 

[Siegmund]

I was born the same day as Igor Stravinsky, but in the year that Dmitri Shostakovich died.

Also the date of an uprising in East Berlin, if I'm not mistaken. Can't recall any other big historical news from that date.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Happened on December 4

1996 The Mars Pathfinder is launched from Cape Canaveral to explore the Martian surface.
1995 NATO troops begin their peacekeeping mission in the Balkans.
1993 Guitarist and singer Frank Zappa dies of cancer in Laurel Canyon, CA, at age 52.
1982 Running back Herschel Walker, a junior at the University of Georgia, is awarded the Heisman Trophy.
1980 The bodies of four missing American nuns are discovered in El Salvador.
1978 Dianne Feinstein becomes the first woman mayor of San Francisco.
1975 Suriname is admitted to the United Nations.
1967 Actor Bert Lahr, best known for his portrayal of the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, dies of pneumonia at age 72.
1965 US astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell blast off aboard the Gemini 7 earth orbiter.
1942 US planes bomb the Italian mainland for the first time during WWII.
1867 The farmer's organization The National Grange of Husbandry, or "Grange" is founded.
1816 James Monroe is elected to be the 5th President of the US.

Born December 4

1973 Tyra Banks - supermodel, actress
1964 Marisa Tomei - actress
1962 Vinnie Dombroski - singer (Sponge)
1959 Bob Griffin - bassist (The BoDeans)
1956 Bernard King - NBA basketball star, actor
1951 Gary Rossington - guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington-Collins Band)
1951 Patricia Wettig - actress
1949 Jeff Bridges - actor
1948 Southside Johnny - singer (Southside Johnny and The Asbury Dukes)
1946 Stan Smith - tennis champ
1944 Dennis Wilson - singer, drummer, keyboardist (The Beach Boys)
1942 Chris Hillman - singer, bassist (The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers)
1942 Bob Mosley - bassist (Moby Grape)
1940 John Cale - singer, bassist, keyboardist (The Velvet Underground)
1940 Freddy Cannon - singer
1937 Max Baer, Jr. - actor (The Beverly Hillbillies)
1934 Victor French - actor
1934 Wink Martindale - TV game show host
1933 Horst Buchholz - actor
1931 Alex Delvecchio - NHL hockey hall of famer
1912 Pappy Boyington - WWII aviator, Black Sheep Squadron commander
1795 Thomas Carlyle - author

 

[CivCube]

APRIL FIFTH - the most important day ever

1997 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg dies at age 70.

1987 Rupert Murdoch's FOX television network starts broadcasting.

1976 Billionaire Howard Hughes dies in Houston at age 72.

1964 US Army General Douglas MacArthur dies in Washington, DC, at age 84.

1933 The first successful human lung removal surgery is performed.

1923 Firestone begins production of inflatable tires.

1879 Peru and Chile declare war on each other.

1842 Shah Shuja, King of Afghanistan, is assassinated.

1792 George Washington exercises the US President's veto powers for the first time.

1753 The British Museum is founded in London.

1614 Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.

 

[SanPellegrino]

Charlie Chaplin passed away the day before I was born, there was no place for two such geniuses on this small planet

 

[Perfection]

August 11th the more importanter then any of the important days in terms of importancy.

2002 Arlington, VA-based American Airways announces it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

2000 The NTSB releases a transcript from the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed 10/31/1999 off the New England coast, killing all 517 aboard.

1997 US President Bill Clinton uses his new pocket veto powers for the first time on a trio of tax and spending bills.

1968 The Beatles launch their own record label, Apple, part of their new Apple Computer business enterprise.

1965 An altercation between the California Highway Patrol and two African-American men today touches off a massive, 6-day Watts riot in Washington DC.

1962 Soviet cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev busts a cap on a 4-day flight aboard Vostok III.

1960 The Republic of China gains its independence from France.

1956 A car accident claims the life of artist Leonardo DaVinci in New York.

1951 The first color broadcast of a state of the union is made (WCBS-TV, NY City).

1934 The first truckload of inmates arrive at Alcatraz federal prison, in San Francisco Bay.

1919 Industralist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie dies at his winter home in Lenox, MA, at age 83.

 

[The Yankee]

What the....? China from France....DaVinci in a car crash? Oh....the author of the post is Perfection....it all makes sense now.

 

[Speedo]

July 2:

1997
Veteran actor Jimmy Stewart dies in Beverly Hills, CA, at age 89.

1994
A US-Air DC-9 jet crashes at Charlotte, NC, killing 37 people.

1976
The US Supreme Court confirms the death penalty, as it is not "inherently cruel or unusual."

1964
The Civil Rights Act is signed by President Lyndon Johnson, making racial discrimination illegal in the US.

1961
Author Ernest Hemingway commits suicide, at age 61.

1955
The Lawrence Welk Show premieres on ABC-TV.

1937
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanish somewhere over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe.

1933
New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell throws a shutout in two complete, back-to-back games of a baseball doubleheader.

1890
The Sherman Antitrust Act is passed by the US Congress.

1881
US President James A. Garfield is shot and mortally wounded at the Washington, DC, railroad station.

1857
The first elevated railway -- soon nicknamed "the El" -- begins operation in New York City.



Born today:

1970 Yancy Butler - actress

1965 Dave Parsons - bassist (Bush)

1964 Jose Canseco - baseball player

1961 Jimmy McNichol - actor

1956 Jerry Hall - model, actress

1954 Pete Briquette - bassist, singer (Boomtown Rats)

1952 Cheryl Ladd - actress, 70's poster babe

1952 Johnny Colla - sax player (Huey Lewis and The News)

1951 Joe Puerta - bassist (Bruce Hornsby and The Range, Ambrosia)

1946 Ron Silver - actor

1939 Paul Williams - singer (The Temptations)

1937 Richard Petty - stock car auto racer (car #43)

1932 Dave Thomas - Wendy's restaurants founder

1931 Imelda Marcos - Philippines first lady, owned hundreds of pairs of shoes

1922 Dan Rowan - comedian (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)

1908 Thurgood Marshall - first African-American US Supreme Court Justice (1967-91)

 

[Comraddict]

on my birthday, I was born!