Historical significance of your birthday

[corkboard]

Nothing of cultural significance happened on the actual day of my birth, but these events happened in other years:

-Big Ben started keeping time
-Madison Square Garden opened
-The hull of the Titanic was launched
-Adolf Eichmann was hanged
-Vanity Fair revealed the identity of Deep Throat
-Tito Puente died

Plus, I share a birthday with Clint Eastwood, Joe Namath, Brooke Shields and Colin Farrell. And it happens to be today.

[Marley23]

I don't think I've looked this stuff up recently. Let's see:

Anne Boleyn is beheaded so Henry VIII can take a whack at yet another woman (1536)
Parliament declares England a commonwealth (1649)
Mexico cedes California, Utah, Nevada, and other territory to the U.S. as the Mexican-American War ends (1848)
Turkish War of Independence begins (1919)

I knew I share a birthday with historical figures including Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Pete Townshend and Kevin Garnett, but Wikipedia reminds me that Pol Pot was also born on May 19. So were Johns Hopkins and Joey Ramone.

[TruCelt]

You guys do realize that you've just revealed your birthdays on the internet, right? It's a rather dangerous question to answer - like those "Movie Star Name" type quizzes that just happen to coincide with the types of confirmation questions websites use for password security.

I'm not accusing the OP, but these are classic social engineering techniques. Regardless of the OP's or anyone else's intentions, your answers could be used for evil. It amazes me how often these things get by on the Dope, of all places.

[Happy Lendervedder]

What's someone gonna do, send me a cake made with stuff I don't like?

By the way, I hate, hate, hate vanilla cake with keylime buttercream frosting, so whatever you do, don't send me one on Groundhog Day, which for the record is February 2.

[Taomist]

It was Thanksgiving, so...a day of national turkey murdering.
So sad.
But a turkey dies, a turkey is born...circle of life.

[Procrustus]

On the day of my birth:

Citing U.S. Congressman Chet Holifield of California as their source, Miami News columnists Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, broke the frightening story that the Soviet Union planned to nuke the Moon. Firing nuclear-tipped rockets at Earth's satellite in 1961 and 1962, the Soviets would use the explosions on the lunar surface for scientific purposes, with the goal of landing a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon by 1965

Plus, Dan Marino was born.

[Doug K.]

Originally Posted by TruCelt

You guys do realize that you've just revealed your birthdays on the internet, right? It's a rather dangerous question to answer - like those "Movie Star Name" type quizzes that just happen to coincide with the types of confirmation questions websites use for password security.

I'm not accusing the OP, but these are classic social engineering techniques. Regardless of the OP's or anyone else's intentions, your answers could be used for evil. It amazes me how often these things get by on the Dope, of all places.

It's not that hard to find out someone's birthday. If that knowledge gives someone the ability to rob us blind, we're already doomed. We might as well go ahead and build Thunderdome.

[SpoilerVirgin]

Originally Posted by interface2x

Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, many years before I was born.

Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, on the actual day I was born.

[tdn]

Originally Posted by corkboard

Plus, I share a birthday with Clint Eastwood, Joe Namath, Brooke Shields and Colin Farrell. And it happens to be today.

Happy birthday!

[Chefguy]

Originally Posted by TruCelt

You guys do realize that you've just revealed your birthdays on the internet, right? It's a rather dangerous question to answer - like those "Movie Star Name" type quizzes that just happen to coincide with the types of confirmation questions websites use for password security.

I'm not accusing the OP, but these are classic social engineering techniques. Regardless of the OP's or anyone else's intentions, your answers could be used for evil. It amazes me how often these things get by on the Dope, of all places.

I think you need to take your anti-paranoia med. Telling people that my birthday is May 13th reveals nothing, especially since I'm not using my real name. With the year attached, it might give somebody a tidbit of useful information, but then we're not doing that, are we?

[tdn]

Originally Posted by Happy Lendervedder

By the way, I hate, hate, hate vanilla cake with keylime buttercream frosting, so whatever you do, don't send me one on Groundhog Day, which for the record is February 2.

If it'll keep until November 1st, I'll have yours.

[Procrustus]

Originally Posted by Chefguy

I think you need to take your anti-paranoia med. Telling people that my birthday is May 13th reveals nothing, especially since I'm not using my real name. With the year attached, it might give somebody a tidbit of useful information, but then we're not doing that, are we?

I did. Bring it on Nigerian scammers.

[Marley23]

Originally Posted by TruCelt

You guys do realize that you've just revealed your birthdays on the internet, right?

And you realize that a lot of Dopers list their birthdays in their user profiles, right? It's not dangerous information on its own.

[TruCelt]

Right, and I've revealed mine here too. But I'm just sayin'. . .Oh, nevermind.

[LawMonkey]

Well, I was going to say that some dude named Jesus was born in the general vicinity of my birthday, but apparently the 24th was the date of the Eggnog Riot and, more awesomely, the WWI Christmas Truce. I must start smuggling in whiskey for eggnog to celebrate my b'day.

[DiosaBellissima]

Ronald Reagan had surgery for hemorrhoids on the exact day I was born. No big deal, guys. Calm down. Yes, you can get my autograph.

[etv78]

Originally Posted by corkboard

Nothing of cultural significance happened on the actual day of my birth, but these events happened in other years:

-Big Ben started keeping time
-Madison Square Garden opened
-The hull of the Titanic was launched
-Adolf Eichmann was hanged
-Vanity Fair revealed the identity of Deep Throat
-Tito Puente died

Plus, I share a birthday with Clint Eastwood, Joe Namath, Brooke Shields and Colin Farrell. And it happens to be today.

Happy birthday! BTW, which MSG?

[azraiel]

My birth date? The bicentennial of the U.S.' declaration of independence (notice the non-capitalization).

[tdn]

Originally Posted by DiosaBellissima

Ronald Reagan had surgery for hemorrhoids on the exact day I was born. No big deal, guys. Calm down. Yes, you can get my autograph.

We're not worthy.

[Skammer]

Originally Posted by Ambivalid

The Epiphany of Christ. Not sure of the 'historical' significance of this but it is recognized as a religious day of celebration.

But not the same year, right?

On my birthday:
- Emperor Caligula was assassinated (41)
- Gold was discovered in Sutter's Mill, CA, triggering the California Gold Rush (1848)
- The first Boy Scout troop was organized (1908)
- The first Macintosh computer goes on sale (1984)

Those are all more-or-less historic I guess.

[corkboard]

Originally Posted by etv78

Happy birthday! BTW, which MSG?

Thanks! And, the former Gilmore's Garden, 26th & Madison, in 1879.

[Annie-Xmas]

Jesus and I share a birthdate.

Singer Annie Lennox and I share the same birthday.

[etv78]

Originally Posted by corkboard

Thanks! And, the former Gilmore's Garden, 26th & Madison, in 1879.

I meant which chronologically (there were at least 4 MSGs)

[tdn]

Originally Posted by Annie-Xmas

Jesus and I share a birthdate.

Singer Annie Lennox and I share the same birthday.

And my great grandmother.

[Mr. Excellent]

I was born on August 12. My birthday falls during a major meteor shower - I enjoy telling people that the heavens themselves wept fire at my birth. And then I laugh maniacally. The Soviets also detonated their first thermonuclear weapon fifty years to the day before I was born; on that same day, two Greek islands were hit by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake. The Battle of Bogside - a particularly bloody 3-day riot in Northern Island - started on August 12, 1969. A year before I was born, the Mexican debt crisis kicked off.

There is a non-zero possibility that I may, in fact, be the Antichrist. And I'm totally okay with that.

ETA: Oh, and Manhattan was blacked-out on the day of my damned birth itself: http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/12/ny...t-12-1983.html

[Sir T-Cups]

I share a birthday with William Shakespeare AND Miguel De Cervantes

Shakespeare died on my birthday too. Which is kinda funny when you think about it.

I also fancy myself a writer, must be an April thing

[Clothahump]

19 December

1732

Benjamin Franklin began publishing Poor Richard's Almanac.
1776

Thomas Paine published his first American Crisis essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls."
1843

Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol."
1946

War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.
1972

Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1984

Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.
1998

President Bill Clinton impeached on two counts by the House of Representatives.
2003

Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction.

[Fear Itself]

There was a total eclipse of the sun on the day I was born. That probably accounts for a lot...

[Marley23]

Originally Posted by Sir T-Cups

I share a birthday with William Shakespeare AND Miguel De Cervantes

Not unless you were born into a timewarp, and neither of them wrote sci-fi. I presume you were born April 23. That's the date both of their deaths are observed. Cervantes was born in September 1547 and Shakespeare in 1562. April 23 is believed to be the date of both Shakespeare's birth and his death. Cervantes' death is marked on April 23, but he actually died April 22 and was buried the next day. For whatever reason people gravitated to celebrating his death on April 23, maybe because of the Shakesepeare connection. But there's another complication: in 1616 Spain was on the Gregorian calendar and England was on the Julian, so they didn't really die on the same day. Cervants had been muerte for 10 days when Shakespeare shuffled off this mortal coil. April 23 is International Day of the Book because UNESCO realized that the real writers' creed is "facts should never get in the way of a good story."

You also share a birthday with Shirley Temple. Definitely.

[california jobcase]

Nikita Khrushchev pounded the desk with his shoe the day I was born.

[Missy2U]

Buffalo Springfield formed on MY birthday! And a huge tornado hit Jackson, MS and 50 plus people died. So I gues I - uh - should probably shut up, right?

SUCKS to be me. Really.

[Crafter_Man]

My name is Michael. And I was born on Saint Michael's Day (Sept. 29th).

[congodwarf]

Originally Posted by t-bonham@scc.net

I was born on Election Day.
My mother actually stopped in to cast her ballot on her way to the hospital.

My grandfather has not voted ONCE in his entire votable life and that was in 1950, the day my mother was born. He forgot.



1990 - first time a black person was inaugurated as governor in the US
1980 - I was born and Togo's constitution became effective and the head of Belgium's drug brigade was arrested for drug smuggling.
1969 - Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album (coincidentally, my 21st birthday was a Yellow Submarine birthday. My boyfriend bought me the set of Beatles figs, each of which came with something from the movie, and he also gave me a copy of the movie, which had recently been re-released)
1966 - First black person selected for President cabinet
1957 - First Frisbee produced by Wham-o!
1930 - "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
1863 - Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet (this one makes me way more amused than it should)
1559 - Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey


In addition to all the interesting stuff, a crapload of people have died on my birthday due to earthquakes, fire, and soccer games.

[Michael63129]

March 25:

421 - Founding of Venice (according to legend)
1655 - Discovery of Titan
1807 - Slavery abolished in the British Empire
1821 - Greek War of Independence begins
1911 - Triangle Shirtwaist fire
1918 - Belarusian People's Republic established
1947 - Coal mine explosion kills 111 in Centralia, Illinois
1948 - First successful tornado forecast
1957 - European Economic Community established (precursor to the EU)
1965 - Completion of one of several marches lead by Martin Luther King, Jr
1979 - First space shuttle (Columbia) delivered
1990 - Nightclub fire kills 87 in the Bronx
1995 - First Wiki (WikiWikiWeb) launched
2006 - Capitol Hill massacre

(and more from Wikipedia)

[Kamino Neko]

Noteable, IMO, events that my birthday (Jan 16) fell on the anniversary of, as listed on wikipedia (sticking to ones that happened before I was born):

27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.

The births of:
1901 – Frank Zamboni
1932 – Dian Fossey
1948 – John Carpenter
1950 – Robert Schimmel
1959 – Sade
1969 – Per "Dead" Ohlin
1970 – Garth Ennis
1974 – Kate Moss

And the deaths of:
1935 – Ma Barker
1936 – Albert Fish

[imthjckaz]

Originally Posted by interface2x

Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, many years before I was born.

Originally Posted by SpoilerVirgin

Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, on the actual day I was born.

Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech on my 2nd birthday.

I guess that makes me the eldest of the 8-28 group.

[RealityChuck]

It took a very long time until I could find anything memorable on my birthday, but eventually I discovered it was the same day as the Battle of Bosworth Field (aka, "My kingdom for a horse").

My daughter was born on Armistice Day, though.

[SticksAndString]

I share my birthday with Garfield the Cat, Talk Like A Pirate Day (arrrr!), Greg Louganis brained himself on a diving board in 1988, "Captain EO" starring Micheal Jackson premieres at EPCOT (1986) and the Mary Tyler Moore show debuted (1970).

[Apollyon]

666 years earlier Dante began his descent into hell.

[Olentzero]

Originally Posted by Happy Lendervedder

By the way, I hate, hate, hate vanilla cake with keylime buttercream frosting, so whatever you do, don't send me one

I, too, shall hate those who send me such comestibles like unto the heat of a thousand burning suns and set immediately to plotting their horrible bloody demise as soon as I come down from the sugar high and stop going AR NOM NOM NOM like Cookie Monster, whose birthday I forgot to mention I share. How did they come up with the Muppets's birthdays, anyway?

[wayward]

Groundhog Day

[corkboard]

Originally Posted by etv78

I meant which chronologically (there were at least 4 MSGs)

I have no idea. Was there one before 1879?

[GESancMan]

On the day of my birth, Tricia Nixon got married at the White House.

23 years later, OJ Simpson killed his ex-wife.

[Cicero]

Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser

Beat that you pretenders.

[terentii]

1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1598 – Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1885 - Alois and Klara Hitler are married. Adolf is born four years later.
1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.
1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1989 – Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
2010 – Muslim gunmen open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after celebrating a midnight Christmas mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.

[kbear]

Canada Day!

[D-bear]

April 21'st

Charlotte Brontë born 1855
Anthony Quinn born 1915
Elizabeth Windsor (that gal who is having a diamond jubilee these days) born 1926
Tony Danza born 1951
Nicole Sullivan (mad TV) born 1970
Me! born 1971

[Nava]

Originally Posted by Marley23

Cervants had been muerte for 10 days when Shakespeare shuffled off this mortal coil.

Muerto, I'm reasonably sure he hadn't been Death

April 23rd is also the feast of St George, patron (among many other places) of the lands of the fomer Crown of Aragon. It's unclear when did books become a traditional St George's gift in Catalonia, but it was before the UN even came into being.

[limegreen]

Originally Posted by Annie-Xmas

Jesus and I share a birthdate.

Singer Annie Lennox and I share the same birthday.

Me, too!

[LilyoftheField]

On my birthday (and his) in 1993, Prince celebrated by changing his name to a symbol.

I'm considering doing the same - that way I could go from having the most common name in the world to something totally unpronounceable!

Feel free to send me heartfelt birthday greetings later this week.