What happened on your birthday?

This is cool!

A year to the day after I was born, January 21 1976, the Concorde was launched by Italy and France, and two years after, in 1977 abortion was legalised in Italy. In 1793 King Louis the 16th of France is found guilty of treason and beheaded during the Revolution.

What other interesting things happened the day you were born??

Here's the link that will tell you!

http://www.datesinhistory.com/

August 4th. Does anything EVER happen on August 4th? Everyone's too busy sleeping or being really hot or vacationing. It's in that 2 weeks of summer that basically defines that "dog days" and no one ever does anything!

Plans for the city of Chicago laid out in 1830 (lookit that!)
Prince's Purple Rain album went to #1 exactly a year before I was born.
And I also know that WWI effectively began on my birthday...

My husband was born on November 22, 1963.
A pretty poignant day in history, the day JFK was assassinated.

Katie Couric and I shar a birthday. Jan 7

0754 Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion

1325 Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal

1536 Catherine o fAragon, the divorced first wife of King Henry VIII of England dies

1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French under Francois, Duke of Guise

1566 Antonio Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V

1579 England signs an offensive &defensive alliance with the Netherlands

1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia &Holy Roman empire

1598 Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I

1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth

1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia

Very cool website!!

There were alot of really cool things that happened on my birthday in history

here are a few!!

- 1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed
- 1789 George Washington inaugurated as first president of US
- 1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
-1960 Lt. Gen. H.D. Graham leaves the Canadian armed forces; last officer with a World War I ribbon to retire.

February 22nd:

1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving (hehe, I thought that one was neat)
1819 Spain cedes Florida to the U.S. (hooray...my home state was ceded to us on my birthday!)
and on my actual birthday, year and all...
1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India

Lots happened today in history.

I thought this one was the coolest one for mine.

1766 The first fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley &chain

Theres nothing there for June 8th 1984 how sad am I?

Feb 9th, 1986:

# 1986 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
# 1986 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed President of South Yemen

Pretty cool!

I love this one!
April 5, 2063 Earth's 1st contact by extra-terrestrials (Vulcan); according to Star Trek

-1783 Spain recognizes the independent country calling itself the United States of America.

-1815 World's first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland

-1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo

-1945 Walt Disney's "The 3 Caballeros" released

-1979 "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart

-1984 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched

-1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby

last but not least!!!

-2000 Natalie Rasmussen and Ryan Crump start dating


who?

1999 The U.S. Senate acquits President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice in his impeachment trial.

Apparently LOTS of things happened on September 9th!

Make sure to scroll down.....

http://www.datesinhistory.com/cgi-bi...phtml?v1=sep09

December 19th, 1988:

• NASA unveils plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars. (I think this one's pretty interesting, since I'm interested in this kind of stuff.
  
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• Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany- 5,000 evacuated.

Originally Posted by eupnea

-1815 World's first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland

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I bet Wyan is spewing this didn't happen on HIS birthday!!