Was anyone else here born

[Pushed To The Left]

on a historical political date? I was born on January 22, 1973. I used to joke that they must have seen me come out of the womb and said "Legalize it!"

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

1. That's also the day LBJ died

Would have been mad if he'd known he was upstaged by Roe v. Wade!

[bloodyjack]

2. I was born the day the Alamo fell

So, in effect, I cannot fail to 'remember the Alamo'

[LDS Jock]

4. gee.. how old are you?

That was 169 years ago.

[bloodyjack]

5. D'oh

I meant I was born on the anniversary of the fall of the Alamo

[Parche]

3. born

Just be thankful you were not born on Febree 30th

[Lone Pawn]

7. Febree? 30th?

Do you mean February 29th?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

6. August 24 ( I was born on August 24 1980 )

No wonder I like politics so much ...

49 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Curio is defeated in the Battle of the Bagradas River by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio is slain in battle.
AD 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
410 - The Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome for three days
1215 - Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid.
1349 - 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz because they are blamed for the bubonic plague.
1391 - Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1511 - Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers the Sultanate of Malacca.
1572 - Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins.
1608 - The first official British representative to India lands in Surat.
1662 - Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer
1682 - William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1690 - Calcutta, India is founded.

1814 - British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
1857 - Beginning of the Panic of 1857, one of the most severe economic crises in US history.
1858 - In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning.
1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1912 - Alaska becomes a United States territory.
1914 - German troops capture Namur.
1929 - Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.
1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
1931 - Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
1936 - The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of the East Solomon Islands. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho is sunk.
1944 - World War II: French and Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
1949 - The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
1950 - Edith Sampson is the first black U.S. delegate to the UN.
1954 - The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
1960 - A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica — a world-record low.
1963 - The 200 metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time (Don Schollander in 1:58).
1968 - France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
1989 - Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 - Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1992 - Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.

[da_chimperor]

8. My birthday is on Jan 29th, same day as Thomas Paine

A damn fine dead guy to share a birthday with, that's for sure. Unfortunately that's the same day Hitler was appointed chancellor of German by Hindenburg . . . :(

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

9. It's also Kansas Day

January 29, 1861. WOOHOO!!

[da_chimperor]

12. Oh . . . really . . . ?

Mmmkay, now I know something new! :)

[UrbScotty]

10. I was born two days after a market crash...

...and two days before a certain judicial nominee got Borked.

[blondeatlast]

11. Yes, I was born.

Oops--now I see the rest of your message!

Sorry, couldn't resist!

[charlyvi]

13. I was born on the day Ted Bundy was executed.

Not political, but creepy.

[SarahB]

14. A few things.

California abolished the death penalty on the day I was born.
It was just before Nixon went to China.
It was also the final day John and Yoko co-hosted the Mike Douglas show.

[ZombieNixon]

15. I didn't know any of this until 2 minutes ago.

Wikipedia's great.

In 1798, the French Army entered Rome
In 1850, Daniel Webster endorses the Compromise of 1850
1876 - I am exactly 111 years younger than the telephone (in official terms)
1912 - Roald Amundsen discovers the South Pole
1936 - Germany reoccupies the Rhineland
1965 - Bloody Sunday 1965 (Selma, AL)
1968 - First Battle of Saigon begins
The day I was born - Mike Tyson wins the WBA World Heavyweight Boxing Championship (who cares? I was born! That's far more important!)

[lenidog]

16. My girlfriend was born on May 1st, 1959

Not only was it the traditional Communist holiday it was also the day Gary Powers got shot down over Russia.