On the day you were born...

Did anything of semi-importance happen on the day you were born? Try running a search on Google for your birthdate and see what interestin' stuff you can come up with.

For example. . . February 18, 1984. My own birthday.

- Prince Rainier of Monaco met privately with President Reagan.
- Footloose was the number one movie in America.
- Darrell Waltrip won the Goody's 300 at Daytona International Speedway, the first race of the 1984 season.
- The last day of the Sarajevo Winter Olympics was held.
- Bill Bradley has his jersey number 24 retired by the New York Knicks.
- Italy and the Vatican agree to end Roman Catholicism as the state religion.

So what about you? Anything exciting happen?

1945 Adolf and Eva marry

1970 U.S.-South Vietnamese forces launch Cambodian "incursion"

1863 William Randolph Hearst is born

1875 Henry James' Transatlantic Sketches is published

1945 DACHAU LIBERATED

1969 Duke Ellington gets Medal of Freedom

1992 The verdict is in on the Rodney King trial

1950 American statesmen deny Lattimore's influence

1862 Union captures New Orleans

1951 Birth of The Intimidator Dale Earnhardt

Thank you History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/t...gory=leadstory

August 5th, 1981

Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.

Rachel Scott, victim of the Columbine High School massacre (d. 1999), was born. o_o

Unidentified Hispanic Male. Discovered on October 10, 1988 in Santa Ana, Orange County, California

oh wow an unidentified man!!! make that hispanic man!!! besides that, there were alot of magazine issues out on my birthday.

Hey, Pies, I meant the exact date of your birth, not every single year on that day. :p

Butt muffin....ok.... then nothing good happened on my birthday :mad:

10th of September 1981

Pablo Picassos painting Guernica was returned to Guernica, Spain, as a tribute to the lives lost there in the Spanish Civil War.

The U.A.E beat New Zealand 1-0 in the Merdeka Tournament. I tell you that's one soccer tounament I have never heard of.

I was born. So was my mate Steve.

That's about it really.

Januray the 31st 1989 *scary music*

Some composer died - 1989 Yasushi Akutagawa composer, dies at 63

Some other weird person dies -Jack Douglas humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child), dies at 80

So many deaths on my birthday...nothing of any imprtance happened on my birthday except for weird people dieing. If i had been born a year before I could have rejoiced that fact I was born on the same day the first McDonalds opened in russia a year before my birthday....

Its not fair.

Mir was launched by the russians and its the queens offical birthday :D

I search and all I get is long list of things about Earth Day, April 22. Nothing terribly interesting, except the original Earth Day was March 21.

October 28, 1982 NASA launches RCA-E
October 28, 1982 Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections

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Originally Posted by TasteyPies

Butt muffin....ok.... then nothing good happened on my birthday :mad:

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Wow, aren't we a ray of sunshine today.

July 10, 1978:

Jimmy Carter's diary: http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/do...8/d071078t.pdf
Sports Illustrated cover (and Sports Illustrated only cost $1): http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_...1978/0710.html
Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees

1985 March 9 The late Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., often referred to as the Senate's 101st Senator because of his ability to get his message across effectively as a lobbyist for the NAACP, with whom he had a relationship for some 40 years, is honored in Baltimore with the renaming of Court House West to the Clarence M. Mitchell Court House. This is in commemoration of his years of service to the cause of equality and justice. The ceremony is attended by hundreds of friends, supporters, and family, including Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan.

Darn, I had a paper with a list of neat things that happened on my birthday ... now where did it go ... *searches through stuff* :nibbles:

On Dec. 3rd, a few years before I was born, 3,000 people were killed by a chemical spill in India.

Hulk Hogan won his first World Wrestling Federation Championship by defeating the Iron Sheik.

:)

- Deposed ministers executed in Liberia
- Jimmy Carter did a number of things.
- The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, overturns a lower court ruling that an at-large city electoral system in Mobile, Alabama is unconstitutional because it dilutes the voting strength of blacks.
- Fritz Strassman died
- Canada decides to boycott Olympic summer games in Moscow
- A record April heat wave pushed the mercury to 100 degrees in Iowa.
- Cuba announces that anyone who wishes to leave Cuba can depart from Mariel. The Mariel boatlift continues through September and results in 123,000 Cubans coming to the United States. Among these immigrants are several thousand who are criminals and several hundred who are mentally ill.
- Jack Nicholson turned 43.


In other words, not much that day.

17th of June, 1988

1988 Bruce Springsteen seperates from Juliette Phillips
1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
1988 The Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case

'28th July 1990'

-Masie Flynn was killed in a road accident
-Baz Luhrmann launched his first production of La Bohème at the Sydney Opera House, Australia.
-amendments were made to Polish civil law
-Seenithamby Pakiarasa was taken from his village in Sri Lanka.
- Kerrang! #300 was released

Nothing much then.

May 29th 1985...

39 Juventus soccer fans died during rioting at the European Cup Final in Brussels.

Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia after 14 months

Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93

Alain Vincx, Belgian stuntman, dies in an accident at 40


A lot of deaths on my birthday :|

This guy drank alot and watched Star Trek 3 on the day I was born.
Some mediums talked to some spirity things about love, compassion and the Live Aid concert. Canadian meteorologists began tracking hurricane Bob. Bill Elliot wont the Summer 500
AND it was the sixteenth anniversary of the moon landing.

03-18-1983

England Division 4: Stockport County 2-2 Bristol City. (soccer)

It was the most interesting thing that happend, I guess. Maybe I should spent more than 5 minutes searching for stuff, next time.

Nothing happened in the exact year, but two years later in 1988 on Feb 24, the Supreme Court upheld the decision that satirizing public figures was all fine and dandy.

On March 28th, 1983 the world rejoiced.

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

On March 28th, 1983 the world rejoiced.

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They invented the idea of world peace?

I was thinking more along the lines of they invented ME but whatever.

Adm. Poindexter testified that he had sold arms to Iran to finance the Contras in Nicaragua.

cant remember anything of real improtance on june 19th 1985 but if you guys can then by all means teach me

When I was born I had a brain hemorrhage