# Anything interesting happened on your birthday? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2002, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265 "2002-04-29T11:45:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/21 "2002-04-29T22:44:24Z")
Using the Encarta link above: **September 11th** 1998: The U.S. Congress releases the report of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, which details President Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual misconduct and accuses the president of perjury and obstruction of justice. 2001: Terrorists hijack airplanes and deliberately crash them into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing thousands. I hate my birthday. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/22 "2002-04-29T22:46:31Z")
Nothing good ever happens on Feb 30th. ☹ 😃 Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/23 "2002-04-29T22:52:55Z")
Nothing much happened on my birthday, but a few years later Chernobyl blew… ---
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/24 "2002-04-29T23:09:51Z")
My 13th birthday was on a Friday the 13th. And there was an eclipse that day as well. OOOOhhh, ominous, oooohhhhhh. (I went skiing.) ---
**Author:** ![\_your\_name\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/919ad9/32.png) [@\_your\_name\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_your_name_here)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/25 "2002-04-29T23:13:39Z")
uh, it’s hugh grants birthday. i want to go to the playboy mansion. ---
**Author:** ![dragongirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/26 "2002-04-29T23:15:54Z")
April 19 1775 the Revolutionary War began 1956 Grace Kelly became a princess 1993 The Branch Davidian compound burned 1995 Mc Veigh bombed Okalahoma City I’m kind of afraid of watching the news on my birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Nevermind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@Nevermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nevermind)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/27 "2002-04-30T03:54:14Z")
It’s almost over, but it WAS a happy burtday! Thanks!!! 😃 See if you can pick out the NEVERMIND Birthday theme: Slept in. Took a nap. Played on the computer. Went shopping. Took another nap. Opened birthday presents. Went out to dinner. Had a couple glasses of wine with my dinner—should help me sleep. Anyone need some advice on stress management? Sept 11–ya that’s tough!! OUch–how do you compensate for that? Suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/28 "2002-04-30T04:08:10Z")
June 21, 1958 **Bobby Darin** recorded _Splish Splash_. It was his first hit and it took him 10 minutes to write the song at the end of a recording session. My source?[Today In History](http://www.440.com/twtd/archives/calendar.html) Check it out - it’s really fun! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kru-baby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6bbea6/32.png) [@Kru-baby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kru-baby)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/29 "2002-04-30T04:31:15Z")
I think on my birthday, 11/5/77, the time machine was invented per “back to the future”. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/30 "2002-04-30T04:40:45Z")
I was born on Father’s Day. Mother Theresa died on my 21st birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/31 "2002-04-30T04:49:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Magickly Delicious \* > **September 11th** > > 1998: The U.S. Congress releases the report of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, which details President Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual misconduct and accuses the president of perjury and obstruction of justice. > > 2001: Terrorists hijack airplanes and deliberately crash them into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing thousands. > > I hate my birthday. :mad: My cousin was also born on the 11th. I was born 18 hours after her. My condolences. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/32 "2002-04-30T04:53:07Z")
I was born on Mother’s Day. My birthday is on Mother’s Day again this year. Thats pretty much all I know about my birthdate. ---
**Author:** ![sleeplessinseattle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@sleeplessinseattle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeplessinseattle)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/33 "2002-04-30T07:26:38Z")
RaCha’ar was born on my 10th birthday. My birthday has fallen on Easter at least twice that I can remember (including this past one). ---
**Author:** ![iconoplast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3d9bf3/32.png) [@iconoplast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iconoplast)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/34 "2002-04-30T08:03:28Z")
Going with the actual date/year: The biggest? Mt. St. Helens erupted. When I was little, my mother told me that it was the heavens fighting to keep me. Plumes went to 9 miles. from [here](http://www.johnmartin.com/earthquakes/eqpapers/00000046.htm) > [@](#): > > On May 25, 1980 at 0933 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) a magnitude 6.0 earthquake (all magnitudes are from Caltech Seismological Laboratory) occurred approximately 10.5 km east-southeast of Mammoth Lakes, California (figure 1). During the next 16 minutes, four magnitude 4.1 - 5.0 shocks and one 5.5 shock occurred. This seismic activity was the beginning of an earthquake sequence that produced 72 magnitude 4.0 - 4.9 events, six magnitude 5.0 - 5.5 events and three events of magnitude 6.0 - 6.3 during the next 48 hours; thousands of magnitude \< 3.9 earthquakes were generated during this same time period. The largest earthquake in the sequence was magnitude 6.3 and occurred at 1245 (PDT) on May 25. Seismic activity after this event was fairly continuous (photo 1) for the next three days; however, most events were less than magnitude 5.0. [Alan Chadwick](http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/chadwick/bio.html) died. Disregarding the year, I share my birthday with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frank Oz, and Miles Davis. 585 BC held the first predicted solar eclipse. In '28, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean. It’s Argentina’s National Day. I’ve been told it’s celebrated as Buddha’s birthday in Hong Kong. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/35 "2002-04-30T08:09:30Z")
John Wayne died the day I was born (June 11, 1979). Famous people also born June 11 include Ben Jonson (1572), Richard Strauss (1864), Jeannette Rankin (1880), Jacques Cousteau (1910), Vince Lombardi (1913), Nelson Mandela (1918), Gene Wilder (1935), and Joe Montana (1956). (Incidentally, **Rico** ’s link, when listing the works Jonson is best known for, mentions _The Devil is an Ass_ and _Sejanus,_ but not _Volpone_! :eek: ) Stuff that happened, gleaned from the various sites people have linked to – 1770: Captain James Cook runs into the Great Barrier Reef 1950: George Wallace attempts to prevent black students from attending the University of Alabama 1963: Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolates himself 1966: Janis Joplin makes her first onstage appearance 1982: “E.T.” opens 1987: Margaret Thatcher elected to a third consecutive term 2001: Timothy McVeigh executed ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/36 "2002-04-30T11:06:28Z")
> [@](#): > > 1789: The newly established U.S. House of Representatives holds its first full meeting. Seems appropriate for April Fool’s Day!😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/37 "2002-04-30T12:07:50Z")
1918: German Kaiser Wilhelm is deposed. 1923: In Munich, armed policeman and troops loyal to Germany’s democratic government crush the Beer Hall putsch (revolt), Hitler’s first attempt at seizing control of the German government. 1938: In Germany, Nazis set synagogues on fire, smash the windows of Jewish shops, and arrest thousands of Jews in a single night that comes to be known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass. 1965: New York and much of the northeast coast of North America suffer the largest power failure in history, leaving thirty million people in the dark. \*\*1989: German citizens begin to demolish the Berlin Wall, which had separated East Germany from West Germany since 1961. \*\* My 21st birthday - I was in Texas when it happened, but it was especially significant to me because I grew up in Germany (U.S. Army brat) and had the incredible opportunity to visit East Berlin in 1986. I didn’t think it would come down in my lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![BrattiAtti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BrattiAtti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrattiAtti)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/38 "2002-04-30T12:12:51Z")
“April 28, 1982, a date that will go down in the United State’s history books in infamy. That date commemorates the United State’s second civil war.” For the full story, go here: [http://www.otherside.net/us2war.htm](http://www.otherside.net/us2war.htm) ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/39 "2002-04-30T12:27:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wireless \* > \*\* > And there was an eclipse that day as well. > \*\* I remember there was a total eclipse on February 25, 1979, my 9th birthday. It was raining that day so all we got to see was the sky getting dark (I think we were going to view it through pinhole cameras, but for obvious reasons couldn’t). Instead we all gathered in the school lunchroom and watched the coverage on TV. ---
**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265/40 "2002-04-30T12:29:21Z")
Nothing earth-shattering happened the day I was born AFAIK. But… My 25th birthday fell on a Friday the 13th, full moon. It was the biggest, wildest, funnest party I’ve ever experienced. Details furnished upon request. * * * Sex,Drugs,Rock&Roll, TN\*hippie [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happened-on-your-birthday/106265.md?page=3)