What great event happened on the date of your birth?

[WillParkinson]

Not necessarily the year.

On April 14th the Titanic struck the iceberg.

Lincoln was shot at the Theater (other than that how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?)

In 1970 an explosion crippled Apollo 13.

So, what events (other than you being born) happened on YOUR birthday?

[ronnykmarshall]

1. Yeah! Baby pics!!

[WillParkinson]

2. As Curly once said...

"What a cutie!"

[GOPisEvil]

3. Watergate break-in/arrests

June 17, 1972

Oh, pictures of me as a young-un? OK.

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Ahhh!

Great hair!

BTW - 2/6/61 I don't know what happened on my B-day except my mom almost giving birth in an elevator.

[GOPisEvil]

8. 2/6/74

US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon

http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/

The hair's MUCH shorter now - damned '70s! :P

[sasquatch]

4. John Lennon was killed twelve hours before I was born

:(

[jayfish]

70. Man, I Remember That Morning.

I watched it on GMA while getting ready for middle school.

Jay

[RushIsRot]

5. October 2, 1950

Peanuts was first published in nine newspapers.

[disgruntella]

7. i've got one!

As long as you consider "People Magazine" a judge of great events:

The marriage of His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer, on the 29th July 1981.

(I was a pre-teen and could have given a shit)

Here's me from the "disco era"

[pippin]

13. conception day

My parent celebrated the victory of Leningrad (St.Petersburg) by deciding to have me! (Leningrad was the tuuning point in WWII: Hitler's army couldn't defeat the resistence of ordinary Russians or the Russian winter--a lesson the current bunch in the White House clearly don't know anything about.)

[Drifter]

28. Another conception possiblity.

If I were conceived exactly 9 months before I was born, that would have been a week after JFK was assasinated.

Cheers
Drifter

[arwalden]

9. JFK, Jr. Dies. -- Barbara Stanwyck and Ginger Rogers Celebrate Birthdays.

:-/

[Lydia Leftcoast]

50. But the picture is of

Judy Holiday, a prime example of an artist (film actress) who died too young.

[arwalden]

68. I Know! I Really Enjoy Her Work...

Actually, the photo is just part of my sigline that changes every day or so. I didn't intentionally include it as a response to this thread.

-- Allen

[ronnykmarshall]

10. Found a cool link!

http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/

[VermontDem2004]

22. Thanks for the link

there is so much more stuff then I knew about my birthday.

On this day... November 29
1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1825 1st Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in US (NYC)
1847 Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
1864 Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph
1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1901 East 182nd Street in the Bronx is paved & opened
1916 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1924 NHL's Montreal Forum opens
1929 Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached the vicinity of the South Pole" (He was wrong)
1933 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
1934 Chicago Bears beat Detroit in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
1944 Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
1944 John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
1945 Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims it's republic
1947 UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews
1950 National Council of the Church of Christ in US established
1951 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1952 President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war
1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
1962 Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
1963 Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
1965 Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1967 British troops withdraw from Aden
1967 US Secretary of Defense McNamara becomes President of the World Bank
1968 John & Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
1969 Beatles' "Come Together," single goes #1
1971 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1976 Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with Yankees
1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
1987 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost
1987 Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles). It was later ruled that he should not be credited with the goal
1990 UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1994 Russian aircraft bomb Chechen capital of Grozney

[SiobhanClancy]

38. Ground breaking begins for Fenway Park,Boston

September 25,1911. Some other things have happened on my birthdate,but they pale in importance to that:)

[eyesroll]

11. I know Cliff Burton died 9/27/86

The Jesuit Society was founded 9/27/1540.

The U.S. Constitution went to the States for ratification 9/27/1787.

I share a birthday with Don Cornelius, Wilford Brimley, Cheryl Teigs, Meat Loaf, Shaun Cassidy, and the vocalist from Color Me Badd.

It is also the Memorial of Vincent de Paul in Roman Catholicism, and the Moon Festival in Taiwan. Occasionally, Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur fall on my birthday. Rosh Hashanah does this year.

[WillParkinson]

60. Meat Loaf stayed at the hotel...

I served him some stuff one night and went home and called Mom and said, "Mom, guess what! I served Meat Loaf last night."

She said, "To who?"

[morningtheft]

12. Challenger Blew up.

I was in third grade passing out cupcakes when we were watching the takeoff.

My teacher ran out of the room crying.

[WINEWOMAN7]

14. Great events on your birthday

April 19: Waco and Oklahoma bombing

My daughter's September 11: goes without saying

[carolinayellowdog]

15. Mickey Mouse and Jonestown

Mickey debuted 11/18/28, so I was born on his 25th birthday. When I turned 25, Mickey turned 50, etc. So I'm used to hearing about Mickey on TV on my birthday. Much nastier is that the Jonestown Massacre occurred 11/18/78, so I expect to hear a lot about the 25th anniversary of that event on my 50th this year.

[trof]

16. The birth of Dorothy Parker

An American critic, satirical poet, and short-story writer, Dorothy Rothschild Parker, b. West End, N.J., Aug. 22, 1893, d. June 7, 1967, is remembered as much for her flashing verbal exchanges and malicious wit as for the disenchanted stories and sketches in which she revealed her underlying pessimism. Starting her career as Vanity Fair's drama critic (1917-20) and continuing as the New Yorker's theater and book reviewer (1927-33), Parker enhanced her legend in the 1920s and early 1930s through membership in the Algonquin Hotel's celebrated Round Table.

"Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live."

"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat
and a few friends."

"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."

[Jack_Sparrow]

17. The Six Day War ended

The war between Egypt and Israel, in which Israel took the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Sinai (which was returned per the Camp David Accords, but everything else on that list is part and parcel of the current source of troubles over there).

Spencer Tracy died the day I was born too.

[Bunny]

18. Well I share a birthday with the following luminaries:

Charlemagne
Hans Christian Andersen
Emile Zola
Buddy Ebsen
Sir Alec Guiness
Marvin Gaye
Camille Paglia (:puke:)
Ron Palillo (Horshack to the ignorant masses)
Rodney King

Now I can really see from where my greatness comes!

[VermontDem2004]

19. Some things interesting

President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission November 29 one week after JFK was shot. Also, Richard Byrd and three companions were the first to fly over the south pole on November 29, 1929. Also Peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians were slaughtered by a band of Colonel John Chivington's Colorado volunteers at Sand Creek, Colorado on November 29, 1864. The UN Voted for partition of Palestine which lead to the creation of an independent Jewish state.

Also, Arizona State beat Arizona 34-20 last year :evilgrin:

Has good things happened on November 29, yes or no?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

49. 11/29's my birthday too, Vermont Dem!

Louisa May Alcott (author of Little Women and vocal advocate of social reform in the 19th century) was born
in 1832.

C.S. Lewis was also born on this day in 1898.

:toast:

[Shakeydave]

62. I'm another 11/29'er!

Vermont Dem and GoddessofGuiness were born then! Me, 1965!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

66. We should have a party...

I'll bring the beer...:beer:

[Don_G]

20. Second Of August

The Deleraction of Independence was ratified by all 13 Colonies...finally....

Conception Day was Thanksgiving 1952.

On Edit: Forgot that Hitler invaded Poland

[XNASA]

21. "West Side Story" opened on Broadway the day I was born.

George Gershwin, Bryan Ferry, Donna Douglas (Ellie Mae), Marty Robbins, Julie London and I all share a birthday. Different years, of course.

[quispquake]

23. October 24, 1962...

James Brown recorded (considered the BEST live album of all time) Live at the Apollo the very night I was born...

Also, it was day four of the Cuban missile crisis...

Some hi's, some lo's...

pp23

[ornotna]

24. A monumental day in history...Jan. 6 1957

Elvis sings on the Ed Sullivan Show.....woohoo!
Hound dog
Love me tender
Heartbreak hotel
Don't be cruel
Peace in the valley
Too much
When my blue moon turns to gold again

[MissMillie]

25. On the day I was born....

It was Henry Ford's birthday
Stephen Jay Gould's birthday

TV premiere of Jimmy Durante Show
TV premiere of X-files


On a more interesting note, I (along w/ my twin sister) were conceived the day JFK was shot. Mother insists that even though JFK was shot once, she was shot twice. In her case there was a lone gunman, and a grassy knoll was not involved.

[catzies]

29. MissMillie, you and I share a birthday!

(You are exactly 2 yrs. younger than I!) :hi:

The list of July 30 birthdays grows ever longer!

1939 Eleanor Smeal heads National Organization for Women
1939 Peter Bogdanovich director/producer (The Last Picture Show)
1940 Patricia Schroeder (Rep-D-Colo)
1941 Paul Anka Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
1945 David Sanborn saxophonist (David Letterman)
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger Austria, body builder (Commando, Terminator)
1954 Ken Olin Chicago Ill, actor (Hill St Blues, Michael-30 Something)
1956 Delta Burke Orlando Fla, actress (Suzanne-Designing Women)
1956 Phil Fearon rocker (Galaxy, Kandidate-I Don't Want to Lose You)
1957 Bill Cartwright basketball player (NY Knicks)
1963 Chris Mullin basketball player (GS Warriors)
1958 Kate Bush Plumstead England, singer/songwriter (Wild Things)
1963 Lisa Kudrow (actress, Friends)

Also:
Vivica A. Fox, Tom Green, Hilary Swank, Jaime Pressly, Carlos Arroyo (Puerto Rican NBA player with the Utah Jazz) have birthdays too.

Notables:
1729 The city of Baltimore was founded.
1792 The French national anthem ''La Marseillaise'' by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.
1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1839 Slave rebels take over slaver Amistad
1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which went into effect following year
1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh" (off the top of my head I think this is wrong)
1975 Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit

[MissMillie]

34. very cool! (n/t)

.

[kmla]

26. A few notable things...

May 16 -

1966 - Beach Boys release the "Pet Sounds" album.
1971 - first class postage is raised from 6 cents to 8 cents.
1986 - Bobby Ewing returns from the dead on "Dallas".

Woo Hoo.

[ikojo]

27. June 28....

Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sofia were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb on June 28, 1914 setting off a chain of events that would culminate in a world war by August. Five years later, on June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allies signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war and providing for the creation of the League of Nations.

Born on June 28 at different times in history...

1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French philosopher; died July 2, 1778)

1902 - Richard Rodgers (Academy Award-winning composer: It Might as Well be Spring <1945>; half of Rodgers and (Lorenz) Hart and Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein: The Sound of Music, Love Me Tonight, My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Oklahoma!, State Fair, The King and I, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Carousel, Getting to Know You, Some Enchanted Evening; died Dec 30, 1979)

1926 - Mel Brooks (Kaminsky) (director, actor: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, The Producers; comedy writer: Your Show of Shows, Get Smart; Broadway producer: The Producers)

1946 - Gilda Radner (Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live <1977-78>; Haunted Honeymoon ; died May 20, 1989)

1948 - Kathy Bates (Academy Award-winning actress: Misery <1990>; Fried Green Tomatoes, Home of Our Own, Prelude to a Kiss)

and me....

[BlueJazz]

30. January 22

Roe Vs Wade.




Mr.Bush Baud Man!! He Vedy, Vedy Baud Man!

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. D-Day, the invasion of Normandy.

Bet you'll never guess what day I was born on. ;-)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

52. Hey, me too!

I was also born on the anniversary of D-Day! But it was also the date that Roberty Kennedy died.

I share birthdays with Alexander Pushkin, Robert F. Scott, Aram Khatchaturian, the Dalai Lama, Marian Wright-Edelman, Harvey Feierstein, Dana Carvey, Sandra Bernhard, Bjorn Borg, and Lukas Haas.

That's quite an assortment!

[ScreamingMeemie]

61. Aren't we lucky???

:toast:

[rainydaywoman]

32. 9/16/74

Thanks for the link! I never knew most of this stuff happened on Sept.16

1620- The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth England, bound for the New World

1908-General Motors founded by William C Durant

1963-"Outer Limits" premiers on TV---one of my favorites!!

1971-6 Klansmen arrested in connection w/10 school bus bombings

1974-Pres. Ford announces unconditional amnesty for U.S. Vietnam War deserters

1976-Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop

1983-(This is a not so good one)Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a U.S. citizen

1991-U.S. trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins

Then under Religious Observances
RC: SS Cornelius, pope (251-53) & Cyprian, Bishop, martyrs
does this mean there was a pope named Cornelius?? That's my maiden name. just curious...

Lauren Bacall shares the same b-day. Seems we both have good taste in older men, lol!

[Paul1574]

42. i was 6 mnths old...lol...

they maybe missed that one

[Kat45]

33. "The day the music died"

The plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper occurred on Feb. 3 (but not the same year).

[Michael Daniels]

35. (7/3) Brian Jones and Jim Morrison were found floating in bodies of water

I think Mark Sandman (Morphine) had his fatal on-stage heart attack as well but that may have happened a day earlier.

[SOteric]

36. 5/5 - Alan Shepard's space flight, and the birthdays of

Karl Marx and Soren Kierkegaard.

[rbnyc]

37. October 3rd 1968:

Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Bela£nde Terry in Peru

October 3rd:

1789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
1945 World Federation of Trade Unions formed; CIO a member
1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1974 Watergate trial begins
1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
1990 East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany

[DrGonzoLives]

39. Sept. 3rd:

1777: The American flag (stars & stripes) is flown in battle for the fitst time at a skirmish at Cooch's Bridge, Maryland. The American troops involved were driven back

1783: Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Revolutionary War

1861: Confederate troops enter Kentucky, violating its neutrality - they join forces with the Union

1935: Sir Malcolm Campbell breaks 300 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah

1943: The Allies invade the Italian mainland

1950: The first U.S. "advisors" are sent to Vietnam by Truman to aid the French in the Indochina revolution

1969: Ho Chi Minh dies, effectively killing the Paris peace talks

1978 (day I was born): Officials find the scores of bodies at Jim Jones' compound in South America

[Richardo]

40. November 22 - JFK assassinated.

My 7th birthday. :-(

On the positive side, November 22, 1956 (DOB) was Thanksgiving Day! :-)

[Richardo]

48. Just found out I share birthday with some pretty cool dudes and dudettes..

1819 George Eliot England, novelist (Silas Marner) :wow:
1888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel :D
1890 Charles de Gaulle Lille France, President of France (1958-69) :wow:
1921 Rodney Dangerfield Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack, Back to School) :D
1940 Terry Gilliam Minneapolis, comedy writer-animator (Monty Python) :D
1943 Billie Jean King Cal, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75) :thumsbup:
1950 Tina Weymouth rocker (Talking Heads-& She Was) :loveya:

[soleft]

41. My girlfriend was born

[Paul1574]

43. march 15th

now i knew julius ceaser died 44bc but get this.....

0076 Hadrian Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)

i was born near that wall even lived in wallsend (guess how they named that part of the city..lol)

freaky

[MaineDem]

44. 9/13

In 1814 (NOT the year I was born, thank you very much!) during the British attack on Fort McHenry, Md., Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the US Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

In 1971, the uprising at Attica Prison.

[dawgman]

56. Instrument of surrender was signed by the Japanese

of Sept. 2, 1945.

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

45. I found this for 12/24/1958...very cool IMHO

The bad news is: the song mentioned here was featured prominently on an episode of 'The Savage Nation' which I had the misfortune of listening to late one night a year or so ago. The song itself is pretty domm good, however.

PS: another DU'er (who I'll defer on identifying out of respect) has my same birthday: month, day, and year.

http://www.textism.com/article/287/

"I was mulling this: how pointless music criticism is, how it makes so much more sense just to listen; how hard it must be to review music for money, turning instinct and groove into a, b and c, when, recently, I rode in the passenger seat of my friend Turner’s K-car, listening to one of his mix tapes, which are always good. On this day, wedged between the 70’s porn soundtracks and Vince Guaraldi, there came on Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" , a song that’s been spackled all over movies for 40 years, but still, er, kicks.

So we’re driving along, two men nodding slightly to the beat, and Turner starts talking about the recording, the actual session, and in my memory it goes like this: "Christmas Eve, 1958. Picture it: the singer, the band. They show up in the afternoon, have some drinks, some sandwiches. Everyone smokes, constantly. They cut the track live, (there, that’s where the drummer f***ks up) and they’re done before 8."

As the snow begins to fall, Bobby Darin walks into the Manhattan night, 8 pm, Christmas Eve, 1958."

[JVS]

46. November 10th 1483. Martin Luther was born.

[FlashHarry]

47. Jan. 26: Paul Newman, Eddie Van Halen...

...and Michigan entered the union.

[ComerPerro]

51. Sept 11

So I think you know.

My friend was born December 7

[smirkymonkey]

53. New York City Draft Riots back in 1863...

on July 13th. Exactly 100 years before I was born...

[LuLu550]

54. CINCO DE MAYO!

:party: :bounce: :beer: :toast: :party:

[Kolesar]

55. Battle of Shiloh, Jerry Brown!

[VOX]

57. Lincoln died from gunshot wound; Income Tax!!!!

That would be April 15.

:toast:

[maveric]

58. May 31 1956

1956: Mickey Mantle homerun just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof

[donotpassgo]

59. 5/20 Amelia Earhardt and Lindbergh take flight across the Atlantic...

Amy Fisher arrested for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuco, Joe Cocker, Cher and Busta Rhymes is born, Columbus and Gilda Radner died.

[sleepyhead]

63. 9/25/55

President Eisenhower had a heart attack. Purely coincidental, I'm sure. And I share my birthday (different years) with Barbara Walters, Michael Douglas, and Catherine Zeta-Jones!

[quaker bill]

64. January 20th

Carter and Clinton inaugurated. Unfortunately same for Reagan and the Bushes.

[DoctorBombay]

65. March 26

On my exact date of birth:

UCLA defeats Memphis State 81-76 to win their 7th consecutive national championship in men's basketball.

The Young and the Restless premiers! :puke:

[Zech Marquis]

67. Chuck Yeager

He flew the X-1 plane out in Edwards, CA and broke the sound barrier for the first tim, back in 1947 or so (?0 Definitely not the samedecade nor year, BUT the same dat (October 14th). That's COOL!

[jayfish]

69. Return Trip From The First Moon Landing.

07/24/69

Jay

[ProfessorGAC]

71. Augustus Caesar Was Born

And, the famous "Merkle's Boner" incident in major league baseball both happened on 9/23. There are others, but i'm brain cramping right now.

(Actually my MS is acting up and my legs are cramping up so badly i can barely think.)

The Professor

[Rhiannon12866]

72. October 11th...

Absolutely nothing that I know of.:shrug:

One of my best friends from childhood was born exactly one month earlier, on September 11th... I have been thinking of her lately.:-(

[scarlet_owl]

73. January 19, 1981

The hostages came home.

Not the same year:
Janis Joplin was born, as was Edgar Allen Poe and Dolly Parton.

I'm in good company, eh?

[Kool Kitty]

74. September 19, 1957-

first Nevada underground nuclear test. Not a good thing. (Okay, I was born on September 19, 1952, but I think they did it on that date just to spite me.)