What happened on your birthday?

Hey, check here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._anniversaries

Me: April 13

-Guy Fawkes Born
-4th Crusade Sacks Constantinople
-7th Crusade defeated
-Spanish Communist Worker's Party Founded
-Thomas Jefferson Born
-Oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes
-Amritsar Massacre in India
-Alferd Packer convicted for murder, one of the only people in the US ever jailed for cannibalism
-WWII: Mass Grave of Polish Prisoners found
-Venezelan Coup ends
-Jack Chick born (!)
-Feast Day of St. Martin the Confessor
-Two porn stars born

Cool.

January 10
* 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
* 236 - Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
* 1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
* 1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
* 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
* 1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
* 1810 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
* 1811 - African-American slaves in Louisiana rebel in two parishes.
* 1861 - American Civil War: Florida secedes from the US.
* 1863 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens, between Paddington and Farringdon Street.
* 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
* 1901 - The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
* 1920 - League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
* 1922 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
* 1923 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
* 1927 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
* 1929 - Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages.
* 1941 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the US Congress.
* 1946 - First General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
* 1957 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
* 1969 - After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post is published.
* 1982 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This equaled the record set in the same place on February 11, 1895. The record would be equalled again at Altnaharra on December 30, 1995
* 1984 - The US and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
* 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
* 1990 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
* 1999 - The Sopranos airs its pilot episode on HBO.
* 1999 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapsed into the sea.
* 2000 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.
* 2001 - Wikipedia starts as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.

509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
122 - The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
533 - General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
604 - Pope Sabinian is consecrated.
1440 - Gilles de Rais is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his David.
1609 - Henry Hudson reaches the river that will later be named after him - the Hudson River.
1743 - Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).
1759 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1788 - The United States Constitutional Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S.
1791 - King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1813 - The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
1847 - Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
1862 - American Civil War: Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1882 - The important Battle of Tall al Kabir is fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War.
1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1899 - Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
1906 - First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.
1914 - During World War I, South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
1922 - The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 136.4 °F (58 °C).
1923 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1935 - Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway.
1939 - Canada enters World War II.
1940 - World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
1940 - World War II: Italy invades Egypt.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956 - The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1956 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1965 - Baseball: Willie Mays becomes the fifth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1968 - Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1971 - State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
1979 - South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognized outside South Africa).
1985 - Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros.
1987 - Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning.
1988 - Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).
1989 - Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1993 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway.
1994 - Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
2001 - Civilian aircraft traffic in the U.S., grounded since September 11, 2001 attacks, is allowed to resume.
2006 - At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide.


The most significant is bolded.

Umm...post the date? As in, the day you were born?

[Laerod]

The two that come to mind are Hitler's suicide and the end of the Vietnam War.

[Purple Android]

28th April:

1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, only days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1788 - Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1796 - The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1862 - American Civil War: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans, Louisiana.
1920 - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1930 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1950 - King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, got married with his queen, Queen Sirikit, after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
1952 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.
1965 - United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. citizens.
1967 - Expo 67 opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1977 - The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 - The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1978 - President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1981 - Galician current Statute of Autonomy.
1986 - United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.
1987 - U.S. engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1988 - Near Maui, Hawaii, a flight attendant is sucked out of Aloha Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when an upper part of the plane's cabin area rips off in mid-flight. Metal fatigue is later found to be the cause of the failure.
1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 - Whitewater scandal: President Bill Clinton gives 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 - In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 37 more.
1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, with Russia, Iraq and North Korea notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.
2001 - Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
2003 - Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store launches, selling 1 million songs in its first week.
2005 - The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.

Plane crashed, according to the News Encyclopedia of the 20th Century. That's it.

Originally Posted by Laerod

The two that come to mind are Hitler's suicide and the end of the Vietnam War.

Oh sure, all the GOOD things happen on your birthday. The only good things I've got going are porn, rebels, and thomas jefferson.

[Vetalia]

* 3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga- Lord Krishna is believed by Hare Krishnas and Hindus to have left the planet on this day.
* 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
* 1268 - The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakovor.
* 1332 (or 1329) - Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
* 1478 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London.
* 1685 - Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
* 1797 - Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.
* 1814 - Battle of Montereau occurs.
* 1841 - The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
* 1856 - The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
* 1861 - In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
* 1861 - With the Italian unification almost complete, King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
* 1865 - In the U.S., Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
* 1878 - The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
* 1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
* 1901 - Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
* 1911 - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
* 1913 - Raymond Poincaré becomes President of France.
* 1929 - First Academy Awards are announced.
* 1930 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
* 1930 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
* 1932 - The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
* 1936 - The United States Patent Office grants design patent 98,617 to Frank A. Redford for the design of the Wigwam Motel.
* 1943 - The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
* 1943 - Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech.
* 1948 - Eamon de Valera resigns as Taoiseach of Ireland.
* 1953 - The first 3D film, Bwana Devil, opens.
* 1953 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the I Love Lucy television series through 1955.
* 1965 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1969 - Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 disaster kills all on board.
* 1970 - The Chicago Eight are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic Party national convention.
* 1972 - The California Supreme Court invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison.
* 1977 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a Boeing 747.
* 1983 - Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle, Washington, said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in American history.
* 1991 - The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
* 1998 - Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.
* 2001 - NASCAR legend Ralph Dale Earnhardt is killed in a crash during the last lap of the Daytona 500.
* 2003 - Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea
* 2004 - Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a run-away freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.
* 2005 - The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.

Remind me again that my birthday date coincides with the whole Nazi shit really hitting the fan in my dear native country. That, and the whole rather longish list doesn't even really offer all that much of a positive highlight to balance it out.

[Andaluciae]

I share a birthday with Nero Caesar!

[Farnhamia]

I've got Custer's Last Stand, the start of the Korean War, Jimmie Walker, George Orwell, Antoni Gaudi, Mozambique's independence, Lord Mountbatten, and the deaths of Simon de Montfort and Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers. All on June 25th.

Events
70 - The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
take that!

1265 - Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham - The army of Prince Edward (future Edward I of England) defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester; killing de Montfort and many of his allies. (This is sometimes considered the end of the age of chivalry in England.)
1578 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - Moroccans defeat Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar captured by English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
1735 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
1753 - George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the fraternity of Freemasonry.
1782 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is married to Constanze Weber.
1789 - In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
1790 - A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
1821 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1824 - Battle of Kos fought between Turks and Greeks.
1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1873 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
1892 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1902 - Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1906 - Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
1914 - World War I: Germany invaded Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality.
1936 - Greek General Ioannis Metaxas, leader of the 4th of August Regime, suspends parliament and the Constitution and declares himself dictator.
1944 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1947 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1954 - Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla.
1964 - American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 - Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are allegedly attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks two, possibly three North Vietnamese gunboats. Years later, the claim of NVA attack was revealed to be false.
1969 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1975 - The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages included the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
1977 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1983 - Thomas Sankara becomes president of Upper Volta.
1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally kills a gull during warmups in the outfield prior to a baseball game in Toronto at Exhibition Stadium and is charged by local police for his "act of cruelty to animals". His manager Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man."
1984 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1985 - In a day of milestones, Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 17th pitcher to win 300th career games and Rod Carew of the California Angels becomes the 16th player ever to collect 3000 career hits. Seaver pitches the White Sox to a 4–1 six-hit victory on Phil Rizzuto Day at Yankee Stadium as 54,032 New Yorkers cheer him on, while Carew bloops a single to left off Frank Viola in the 3rd inning of the Angels 6–5 win over the Twins. It marks the only day in which two men reach these two milestones on the same day.
1987 - The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.
1991 - The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
1993 - A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
1995 - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1997 - 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
2005 - Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first black — Governor General.
2006 - Dame Silvia Cartwright will step down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and will be replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who will be sworn in on 23 August.

Originally Posted by Oeck

Remind me again that my birthday date coincides with the whole Nazi shit really hitting the fan in my dear native country. That, and the whole rather longish list doesn't even really offer all that much of a positive highlight to balance it out.

Still...I got cannibals, porn, terriosts, and mass graves.


I kick ass.

[Whereyouthinkyougoing]

The most pertinent ones:

* 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is formed.

* 1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax. I know someone who'll be excited to hear this.

* 1875 - Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby. Not bad for a dead guy.

* 1902 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism. What is it with this thing this week?

* 1933 - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway. Ny Norland would have been so proud of me.

* 1954 - The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. I KNOW THAT! I know that because it's my birthday (well, not the year) and so I always remembered that date and in my high school graduation English exams I wrote about it just because of the fact that I remembered the date and I so got an A.

* 1970 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean. I like him, he's cool.

* 1984 - Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture. FLORT

* 2000 - Beverly Hills 90210 airs its last episode. You can thank me by sending gifts.

* 2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first state in the United States to legalize Same-sex marriage.