What notable historic event happened on your birthday?

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Sort of inspired by the 'what famous person shares your birthday' thread

Basically post up any historic event that happened on your birthday. I'll go first;

March 16th;

1988 - The Halabja Poison Gas Attack where 5000 people were killed.
1988 - Iran-Contra Affair Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1978 - Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors.
1968 - General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
1958 - The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1942 - The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
1940 - First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
1936 - Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and lead to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
1912 - Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left his tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time."
1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.


So what happened on yours?
 
March 23rd

Enabling Act of 1933

It was basically when Hitler became a dictator.

Crap.



1857.

First elevator installed.
 
Nov. 9 1989, the gates to the Berlin Wall were opened.


Other than that, Nov. 9 is a pretty uneventful day in history.
 
April 2, 1985. I was born. Pretty damned historic if you ask me...

No big world events on the actual day of my birth, but a few in general across the ages. Possibly most significant was in 1982, when Argentina invaded the Falklands.

Several motorsport births on that day too - Jack Brabham, Mike Hailwood, Will Hoy, Juha Kankkunen. Good old Pope JPII kicked the bucket on this day back in '05 too.
 
September 28th, 1996...

The mexican independence act was signed exactly 175 years before I was born (Signed in 1821)

Not that much of world changing events, but important, yes :)

And one very important motorsport birth, Mikka Häkkinen, 1968
 
September 5th 1991. The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention 1989 came into force. That's about it.


As for other years:

1970 – Jochen Rindt become the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship.
1977 – Voyager 1 was launched.
 
Jessica Simpson shares my birthday :lol:. But there is also these.

- Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
- NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
- Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74
- Jaap van den Hurk, TV-director (NCRV), dies
- Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force gen, commits suicide at 64
- John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69
- Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, dies at 87
- Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82



Clearly, death was a common theme, and right after I was born, 3 people in my family died within 6 months.

What, am I the Grim Reaper or something??
 
xXKingJoshXx
They didn't want to deal with your Ford-ness.



:sly: i kid, i kid :lol:
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That actually gave me a good laugh :lol:

Although I suspect at the time, they were getting plenty of that from my dad who is actually much worse than I am :lol:
 
Some fairly interesting events unashamedly ripped from Wikipedia (January 25th):

  • São Paulo founded (1554)
  • First running of the Winter Olympics, in Chamonix (1924)
  • First Emmy Awards presented (1949)
  • John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference (1961)
  • Norwegian Rocket Incident - Russia nearly launches a nuclear attack after mistaking a Norwegian research rocket for a US Trident missile :scared: (1995)
  • Opportunity rover lands on Mars (2004)
  • Beginnings of the Egyptian revolution (2011)

And to top it all off, this

  • Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star (2006)
Aw yiss
 
I just looked, and pretty much nothing of huge interest happened. On any year. :indiff:
 
1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
1958 – Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.

Quite a bit, but these two caught my eye. Fangio because fangio, and the WWWII shelling, I had realised they'd used Subs for surface to ground warfare.
 
"In 1937, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal." I promise you, I had nothing to do with this.

I'm also quite disappointed that no one famous died on my birthday meaning that I can't claim to be their reincarnated spirit and thus get all their royalties and inheritance.
 
Well this definitely got my curiosity going. The ones that stood out the most for me on February 24th were,

2008: Fidel Castro retires from presidency after 50 years.

1955: Both Steve Jobs and Alain Prost were born. :eek:

2006: Dennis Weaver of Steven Spielberg's Duel fame dies.

2007: LEROOOOY JENKINS!!!! :lol:
(sorry, poor taste :rolleyes: ) the violinist and composer dies.
 
Most notable, to me at least:

1792 - George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
1803 - 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D
1887 - Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1923 - Firestone Co put their inflatable tires into production
1954 - Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
1958 - Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
1965 - Lava Lamp Day celebrated
1971 - Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
1973 - Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1974 - Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
1975 - Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
1977 - (MY BIRTHDAY) US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
2063 - Earth's 1st contact with the extra-terrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe
 
The first recorded ascent of Triglav was on 26th of August 1778. I'm sure most won't know what a Triglav even is, but it's the highest mountain in Slovenia and a national symbol so I'm pretty happy with that.

I guess other things also happened

On my birthday in 1995 apparently 'Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval'
No clue what any of that means, I don't even watch cricket.
 
Apok
On my birthday in 1995 apparently 'Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval'
No clue what any of that means, I don't even watch cricket.
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To score over 100 runs in a single cricket innings is impressive, but it was the start of amazing career that resulted in 53 centuries, with a highest score of 400 without being caught or bowled out against England in one inning, and 501 not out in an English domestic match. If you imagine, scoring 100 runs is similar to a hat-trick in football, or scoring over 200 in a game of 10-pin bowling.

I know it may seem a boring sport, but you should try watching some of the Indian Premier League before diving into more traditional matches. The IPL starts in April.
 
Thanks for the info, but I'll pass on that. If I did start watching sports (I don't plan on it) I'd probably start with something which is actually televised here. :lol:
 
  • 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
  • 1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
  • 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
  • 1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
  • 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
  • 1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
  • 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
  • 1976 – Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
  • 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
  • 2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
  • 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
Forgot to mention, that my birthday, July 2nd, is the midpoint of the common year, ie a non-leap year. At 12 noon, it's exactly half way through the year.
 
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  • 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
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Both parties are pretty much the same thing :indiff:
 
1399 - Henry IV proclaimed King of England
1791 - Premiere of The Magic Flute
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims
1935 - Hoover Dam dedicated
1938 - Munich Agreement signed
1955 - James Dean dies
1962 - James Meredith becomes the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi
1966 - Botswana achieves independence
1968 - Debut of the Boeing 747
1994 - The furthest tube station from central London (21 miles) closes
2004 - First images of a live Giant Squid init's natural habitat
 

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