What happened on your Birthday?

[Yassen]

July 11th was the day that To Kill a Mockingbird was first published in 1960, interesting.

There also seems to be a whole lot of massacres taking place on this day, kind of unsettling. Maybe it's because a certain someone didn't get the presents he wanted....

Oh and Captain James Cook begins his third voyage, I admire him so that's nice.

Captcha: "Tickled Ivories"..... WTF?

 

[mgirl]

According to google, the treaty of versailles was signed and world war 1 officially ended, despite the fact that hostilities had ceased for quite some time. Yay for official peace. Funny I didn't know that before, being a history major. Oh well...

 

[Joey Morris]

My birthday is September 11.

2007 ? Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
2001 ? The September 11 attacks take place in the United States. Airplane hijackings result in the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, damage to The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the crashing of a passenger airliner near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
1997 ? NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
1971 ? The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.

I also share a birthday with this guy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNk73MyBYKU&feature=related]

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

Lets see here

Sept 7th 1940 The Blitz ? Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.

Sept 7th 1945 Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.

Sept 7th 1978 While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella

Sept 7th 1979 The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.

Sept 7th 1996 American Hip-Hop star Tupac Shakur is fatally shot four times on the Las Vegas strip after leaving the Tyson-Seldon boxing match


I'm starting to think that my birthday is an ill omen.

 

[Wintermoot]

august 31,st
lots of stuff happened but I don,t really know what,s interesting and what,s boring.
Caligula was born on that day so that,s pretty awesome

 

[Vivi22]

I share my birthday with Phil Hartman and Kevin Sorbo. What more could anyone ask for? Dr. Seuss also died when I turned 6, but I guess you can't win them all.

 

[Palademon]

Yahtzee was born...

Yay?

Edit: It's also apparently Victoria day in Canada, celebrating Queen Victoria's birthday.

 

[FamoFunk]

Apparently on the 19th April in 1987 ? The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.

 

[Furioso]

Apparently Fred MacMurray and Robert Maxwell died, that's about it, but it is also Guy Fawkes Day so at least there's that

 

[Gameslayer_93]

it rained on my birthday...

OT: February 20th 1935, Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.

 

[Fijiman]

My birthday is also International Coffee Day. Ironically, I don't like coffee.

 

[The Funslinger]

The last peanuts comic strip written by its creator, Charles Shulz was published.

The Black Sabbath album, "Black Sabbath" was released.

Unfortunately, I share a birthday with Robbie Williams.

 

[Grimh]

To Wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_11

I do like space stuff:
1958 - Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
2000 - NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.

1975 - The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.

I share a birthday with Claudia Black, who's awesome.
Oh and Napoleon! [sub]The rapper.[/sub]
No but seriously I do share the same birthday with that other Napoleon as well. [sub]Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I of France[/sub]

Oh and apparently thousands have died in horrible disasters and battles on my birthday...

Yaa[small]aay...[/small]

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

June 29th.
226 AD - Death of Cao Pi (gogo Dynasty Warriors!!)
1914 - Attempted assassination of Rasputin in Siberia.
1972 ? The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1995 - Atlantis space shuttle docks with MIR for the first time.

Interesting.

EDIT: 1940 - Batman comic published featuring the death of the Grayson family except for Dick, later known as Robin.

1916 - First flight of a Boeing aircraft

1946 - Black Sabbath (not the band): 2700 Jews arrested in Palestine by the Brits.

1964 - Civil Rights Act passed after 83 day filibuster (a practice that should be outlawed in Govt).

1979 - Moonraker premier in the U.S.

1991 - 6.0 Earthquake in California.

1996 - Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900

 

[VeryOddGamer]

March 9th.
1454 Amerigo Vespucci was born.
1796 Napoleon got married the first time.
1934 Yuri Gagarin was born.
1945 The USA started bombing Tokyo in one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
1957 An earthquake in Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami that did extensive damage to Hawaii.
1959 The Barbie doll makes its debut.
1961 Sputnik 9 was launched.
2010 the first same-sex marriages in Washington D.C. take place.
And of course, 2012 Mass Effect 3 was released in Europe.
Still, nothing world-changing.

 

[mb16]

Well on my exact birth day Tajikstan gained independence from the Soviet Union.

if we are including that date each year:

-John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
-California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
-U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
- First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
-Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. (North Korea)
-The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
-The debut of the Sony Playstation.

(picked a few of the best)

So yay, two nations were "created" on my birthday!

 

[A_Parked_Car]

-Julius Caesar defeated Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus.
-Emperor Valens and a large Roman army was crushed by the Visigoths.
-The Japanese city of Nagasaki was nuked by the Americans.
-The Soviet Union entered the war against Japan by invading Japanese-held Manchuria. This happens to be another major factor (beside the nukes) that led the Japanese to surrender. It also is one of, if not THE most one-sided military engagement in human history.

That is all that really mattered from what I can see. Other than that lots of people were born and died.

 

[Nietz]

According to Wikipedia, this has happened on my birthday in this millenium:

May 13th
-2000 ? In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately ?450 million in damage.
-2005 ? The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
-2005 ? The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
-2006 ? 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
-2008 ? The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
-2011 ? In the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan, two bombs explode, resulting in 98 deaths 140 wounded.

 

[BakedAlaskan]

In 1307, William tell shot an arrow through an apple on his son's head...
In 1918, Latvia declares independence from Russia...
It was decided that Mickey Mouse's birthday in 1928 is the same as mine...
In 1991, it was the day Terry Waite was kidnapped in the Lebanon...
In 1993, NAFTA was ratified as a global trading bloc...
In 2011, Batman: Arkham City was released in Europe...

November 18th. Seemingly somewhat legendary. There were also numerous earthquakes, floods and tsunamis!

 

[Terminate421]

Well this year a very very very shitty and creepy looking movie comes out.....

1969 Monty Pythons Flying circus first premiered
1947 The first televised presidential address happened
1962 The beatles released their first album
1989 The Dalai lama won nobel peace prize
2011 Steve Jobs died

That is 4 positives and 2 negatives. October 5th.