know what happened on your birthday?

[Longshot]

yes, i know the title is stupid, but its the best i can come up with without making it five sentences long -__-

Does anyone happen to know what special event happens on their birthday? I know that every day in history has something special about it, but do you know what happens on your day?

ex: on MY birthday, the comic strip for Mickey Mouse debuts in American newspapers, around 1930....and its also Friday the 13th of next year =B

how do i know this, someone might ask. o.0 i read it a long time ago, thats how. i also know that in 1990 Virginia elected the first african american governer in the United states.

Would you like to know what happened on the day of your birthday, or you already do? post! =3 Because Im nosey and Id like to know, too.
If youd also like to know what famous person was born on the same day you were, i could tell ya that, too....

[ranma_my_luv]

nat king cole was born on mah birthday i think, and oh yeah, i was born that day, so its pretty kick arse march 17th is.....

[FarEastStyle]

Johnny CASH died on my birthday
it hurt

[Angel~Eyes]

What happened on my birthday??

I was born^^ Yeah, What a wonderful day, hee hee

Anyway, here is some other things that happened...

* Union printers in Great Britain walk off the job in a labor dispute between the National Graphical Association and newspaper management.
* Future CED title in widespread theatrical release: Terms of Endearment.
* Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight boxing title.

Oooo, how exciting! ^^

Luv Angel Eyes

[Vaan]

Um. David Boreanez (Angel) and I's birthday, falls on the same day. May 8th. oO' Only he's like 15 years older than me. xD

[Angel~Eyes]

Um. David Boreanez (Angel) and I's birthday, falls on the same day. May 8th. oO' Only he's like 15 years older than me. xD

Ahhhh! That is so neat, I love David Boreanaz ^_^

No one really famous was born on my birthday though...well except for me that is ^_~

Luv Angel Eyes

[Ami~chan]

Nothin I know of great importance happened on Sept. 10th, 1989. A day later, many years later, though, 9/11 occured.

[Moonlight Dreamer]

Everyone should know even though some people do not know a few days after their birthday what happend.

[Rune Wisemail]

1189 Riots of Lynn in Norfolk spread to Norwich England

1508 Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor

1577 King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots

1626 Huguenot rebels & the French sign Peace of La Rochelle

1651 Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris

1670 Frederick III, King of Denmark and Norway, dies.

1693 Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg VA

1716 England & Netherlands renew alliance

1778 England declares war on France

1778 France officially recognizes the new nation known as the United States of America.

Hmm... very interesting. Not really that recent, though. Hahaha. :/

[Lucidian Dyne]

On my birthday:

1916 -- Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity
1952 -- The US Senate approves a peace treaty with Japan
2003 -- Three countries and the United States begin military operations in Iraq

That last one screws with my mind a bit. *Blink*

[Wandering Samurai]

ummm all i know is that it's the korean thanks giving.

[Marie2007]

I dont remember everything that has happened on birthday

[Sweet Lucidity]

how do you people know these things????

[Longshot]

how do you people know these things????

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/onthisday.aspx

go here. =B it tells you what happened on every day in history

[Vagary]

On my B-day:
1. In 1865 the Confederate troops surrendered to the Union, which led to the end of the Civil War.
2. In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was burried in Atlanta, Georgia.
3. In 1970, the Beatles announced their official break up.
4. Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance has the same birthday as me! April 9th! ^_^

[Razor Clarence]

My great grandfather died. I can't stop thinking about it!!!!!!

[Silver_Star_of_Darkness]

Events that happened on my birthday -

867 - Adrian II becomes Pope
872 - John VIII becomes Pope
1287 - Zuider Zee sea wall collapses, killing over 50,000 people
1542 - Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.
1790 - Alexander Hamilton proposes creation of a Bank of the United States
1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state
1896 - Glasgow Underground Railway, third in the world, opens (an accident closes it the same day and it only reopens in 1897),
1900 - Max Planck publishes his study of quantum theory (The birth of Quantum Theory)
1902 - First telegraph cable laid across the Pacific Ocean
1911 - First expedition reaches the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen
1918 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounced the Finnish throne.
1932 - Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom
1939 - USSR expelled from the League of Nations
1946 - UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City
1947 - NASCAR founded
1958 - 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility
1959 - Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1962 - Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1962 - The Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million, the highest insurance valuance for a painting in history.
1964 - Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 379 US 241 1964 decided by U.S. Supreme Court
1979 - Punk rock band The Clash release the influential double album London Calling.
1981 - Israel annexes the Golan Heights
1989 - Chile holds its first free election in 16 years. Patricio Aylwin was elected president.
1991 - A rock slide takes off 10 metres of Mount Cook's elevation in New Zealand.
1995 - The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris to end the Yugoslav wars.
1996 - A massive frightliner hits the Riverwalk mall and hotel complex in New Orleans, Louisiana, injuring 116.
1999 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, announced his retirement.
2000 - The Texas 7 rob a Radio Shack in Pearland, Texas. They stole police scanners that would be used in their following infamous heist.
2003 - The news of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's capture is finally announced.
2003 - Celebration of the reopening of the Fenice Theater in Venice, Italy.
2004 - The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, is officially opened.

[Razor Clarence]

I this birthday-which aready past- my parents' car broke down and I had to walk home. It was a long walk and it took me some time to get in the house because I had no keys to the house. I did get loads of presents though.

[SGI]

Damn, my day is probally the most boring of all...

1567: A conspiracy to kill Lord Stuart Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is successfully carried out on this night.

1900: The Davis Cup is first won by its donator Dwight F. Davis and his doubles partner in Brookline, Massachusetts.

1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy claims the Department of State has been infiltrated by Communists. He is later censured for his tactics.
Learn more about Joseph McCarthy.

1953: Ralph Ellison's best-known work, Invisible Man (1952) receives the National Book Award.

1964: Ed Sullivan presents the Beatles on his weekly variety show, helping to advance the careers of the "Fab Four" in the United States.

1971: Satchel Paige is inducted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He is well known for his colorful observations of life ("Never run when you can walk") as well as for his pitching speed

[.Lovebeat]

I found a really long list, but I will only post some stuffs ^^

31th of January...
1981 (I think) - The birth of Justin Timberlake XD
1996 - Dragon Ball Z ends in Japan (rofl!)
1991 - Here comes...ME! ~_^

[blinkkid]

March 10:
Alexander graham Bell made first speech through the telephone

thats the only thing that i know of

[Bubblegum Pop]

In 1989 (the year i was born in) The Berlin Wall was torn down. WOOT!! BEAT THAT!

[Eris]

I woke up the next day with a bad hangover and no money.

On a more serious note: The winter solstice. Darkest day of the year.

[chiifanloversis]

i have no flippin clue
lol

[demonplight]

MORE GENERAL INTEREST

1556 Mughal victory assures Akbar's ascension
1912 Wilson wins landslide victory
1930 An American Nobel Prize in Literature
1990 Jewish extremist assassinated in New York


AUTOMOTIVE

1895 Selden receives first automobile patent


CIVIL WAR

1862 Lincoln removes McClellan


COLD WAR

1968 Richard Nixon elected president


CRIME

1961 A bag of bones helps solve a decades-old mystery


ENTERTAINMENT

1911 Roy Rogers born


LEAD STORY

1605 THE GUNPOWDER PLOT:


LITERARY

1893 Willa Cather starts writing for the Nebraska State Journal


OLD WEST

1862 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota


VIETNAM WAR

1968 Nixon wins presidential election


WALL STREET

1935 Free parking!


WORLD WAR II

1940 FDR re-elected president

well that, but i got drunk, and went to a strip club.

go here to look yours up!