What notable historic event happened on your birthday?

[Cano]

1824: world premiere of Bethoven's 9th symphony. That's a pretty big deal.

Amongst other things like the formation of Daimler-Chrysler and the sonking of the Lusitania, an event that eventually brings the USA into WWI.

 

[NotThePrez]

February 5

• 1917: US Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, which banned immigration from South/Southeast Asia.
• 1939: Franco becomes the Leader/Dictator of Spain, which lasts until his death in 1975.
• 1958: The US Air Force loses the hydrogen bomb known as the "Tybee bomb" off the coast of Savannah, Georgia.
• 1971: Apollo 14 lands on the moon.
• 1988: Manuel Noriega is indicted on money laundering and drug charges.

 

[Spacegoat]

1854: The Eureka Stockade. Which was a rather significant moment in Australia's history.

And the first human heart transplant, among other things.

 

[Lissa]

28th June

Lots of battles on this date, but I guess the two most notable events are:

• 1914 –Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
• 1919– The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end between Germany and the Allies.

 

[Danny]

So according to Wikipedia...

• A hurricane in the Caribbean killed 20,000-30,000
• Over 300 people died in the Great Chicago Fire
• 800 Gypsy children were killed in the Holocaust
• 3,500 people died in an earthquake in El Asnam, Algeria
• 1,500 people died in an earthquake in San Salvador, El Salvador
• A plane crashed in Uraguay killing 74
• Another plane was shot down in the DRC, killing 41
• The Orakzai Bombing killed 110

But the International Space Treaty, that stops countries putting WMDs on the moon was signed, so I have that going for me.

 

[axletramp]

Every time you blow out a candle, entire towns are wiped from the face of the earth.

 

[kikie]

"In 1937, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal." I promise you, I had nothing to do with this.

I'm also quite disappointed that no one famous died on my birthday meaning that I can't claim to be their reincarnated spirit and thus get all their royalties and inheritance.

You've got a Porsche, isn't that enough?

 

[axletramp]

Got to pay for it somehow.

 

[Danny]

Every time you blow out a candle entire towns are wiped from the face of the earth.

By the time I have the same number of candles as you do now it'll be practically genocide.

 

[axletramp]

You will one day. Just a shame I'll still look better.

 

[Eks]

China declared war on Germany.

 

[axletramp]

Just now? Seems a bit rough, I mean, Vettel can be annoying but this is too far.

 

[commodoreben]

I only checked one site and found all this.

http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/3

 

[kikie]

I only checked one site and found all this.

http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/3

You probably didn't click my link on the previous page because I already found that website.

 

[kennylmao]

...Japanese submarines fire artillery shells...

That kinda crashed my brain for a while.

 

[AudiMan2011]

January 5:

1919 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
1933 - Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
1972 - NASA announces development of space shuttle
1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).

 

[Adamgp]

1865 - General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, End of U.S. Civil War

1912 - Last minute crew change before Titanic's maiden voyage. A fired 2nd officer leaves the ship and takes the key to the cabinet where the lookouts' binoculars are stored.

1914 - 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)

1941 - PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame

1950 - Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance

1953 - "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue

1959 - NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury

1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen

1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.

1968 - Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta

1969 – The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.

 

[ibnumgt1]

December 7

1941- Pearl Harbor tragedy.

Now I'm feeling weird and awkward due to my date of birth is the same date where a lot of people died.

 

[Revoy]

1821 – Cry of Independence (Start of Panama's Independence from Spain)

1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France

1969 – United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.

1970 – Vietnam War: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities

1989 – German citizens begin to bring the Berlin Wall down

 

[mister dog]

All of your historical events pale in comparison to what happened on my b'day!

1991 - Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion

 

[The Bman]

May 11th.

330 - Constantinople (previously known as Byzantium) becomes the capital of the Roman Empire.

1502 - Christopher Columbus begins his 4th and final trip to the West Indies (America).

And that's about all when it comes to very significant events. There are tons more of events on my birthday but they don't really stick out at me. Here's more if you're interested.

 

[Ross]

May 6th

1937: Hindenburg Disaster

 

[Liquid]

10th July

1212 - The worst great fire to hit London occured.
1778 - France declares war on Great Britain during the American Revolution.
1913 - Hottest temperature ever recorded in the United States in Death Valley. 134F or 57C.
1940 - The Vichy Government was established.
1962 - Telstar was launched.
1985 - Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French intelligence.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin became the President of Russia. - Actual birthday

 

[AlvaroF]

Noobs:

1994-Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car

In other dates:

1952 -Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom
1974 -Skylab 4's astronauts land
1855 -The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon (no idea what it is but it appears to be cool)

All this on the 8th of February

 

[MoLiEG]

I was born, obviously

And so did a guy called Olivier Giroud...

And all of this happened...

1399 - Henry IV proclaimed King of England
1791 - Premiere of The Magic Flute
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims
1935 - Hoover Dam dedicated
1938 - Munich Agreement signed
1955 - James Dean dies
1962 - James Meredith becomes the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi
1966 - Botswana achieves independence
1968 - Debut of the Boeing 747
1994 - The furthest tube station from central London (21 miles) closes
2004 - First images of a live Giant Squid init's natural habitat

 

[TB]

All of your historical events pale in comparison to what happened on my b'day!

1991 - Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion

I also had a Hogan reference on my day of birth:

1992 - Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice

but chose to omit it on the grounds that no one cares.

 

[RJS]

Just a few events that I found interesting

6 October
1857 - American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1866 - 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1882 - 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
1889 - Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
1939 - Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain
1939 - Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
1966 - LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow..
1995 – 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.

 

[BKGlover]

OK, apparently my birthday like to go from one extreme to the other, explains a bit of my moods.

August 11:

3114 BC - The Mayan Long Count Calendar starts, apparently.
2492 BC - Armenian founder Hayk defeats Bel.
355 - Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
1492 - Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI.
1772 - Papandayan in Java explodes, losing 4000 feet and killing 3000. It's active again too.
1858 - The Eiger is conquered for the first time. Racing commences later.
1866 - Worlds first roller rink opens in Newport, RI.
1877 - Demios, Mars' moon, is discovered.
1914 - France declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1919 - Green Bay Packers American Football Club is established. Hell Yeah!
1929 - Babe Ruth hits 500th home run.
1933 - Alcatraz Federal Prison takes it's first inmates.
1971 - Construction Begins on the Louisiana Superdome.
1988 - Al Qaeda established. FML.
2012 - Iranian earthquakes.

 

[laserviper3]

Ok Feb 14

something about a massacre in 1929
1959 - $3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
1990 - Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system

just a few things I thought was interesting

 

[Adamgp]

1865 - General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, End of U.S. Civil War

1912 - Last minute crew change before Titanic's maiden voyage. A fired 2nd officer leaves the ship and takes the key to the cabinet where the lookouts' binoculars are stored.

1914 - 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)

1941 - PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame

1950 - Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance

1953 - "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue

1959 - NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury

1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen

1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.

1968 - Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta

1969 – The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.

Just heard it on the radio as part of the Beatles 50th. This didn't show up on the Historyorb site, but its worth adding:

1970 - Paul McCartney announces the break-up of the Beatles.