# Historical events that took place on your birthday... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973 "2005-06-05T04:16:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/21 "2005-06-05T09:44:27Z")
> [@Frankenbear](#): > > It’s also National Catfish Day and National Strawberry Parfait Day in the U.S. What a disgusting dish that would be. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/22 "2005-06-05T14:32:27Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > I was born on September 11. Damn. For me: 1862 - Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell. 1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. 1941 - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States. _And condemning me to a lifetime of pumpin pie instead of birthday cakes._ 1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - A fleet of six aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence. 1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain falls in one mintue [sic], the heaviest rainfall ever on record. 1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland’s parliament. 2003 - Last flight of the Concorde. Others who share my birthday: Sarah Grimke, abolitionist and feminist; Mary Edwards Walker, feminist physician; Maud, Queen of Norway; Bruno Hauptmann, kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh III; Charles M. Schulz, creator of \*Peanuts \*and a slew of musicians and actors, including Tina Turner, Bruce Paltrow and Robert Goulet. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/23 "2005-06-05T15:22:17Z")
I win. One day I went to the library to look up newspaper headlines from the day I was born. The headline of our local paper: _ **President Reagan Returns Home From Anal Surgery** _ :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/24 "2005-06-05T15:24:55Z")
On my birthday: Napoleon won the Battle of Brienne-1814 The Victoria Cross was created-1856 Kansas became a state-1861 Karl Benz received his patent-1886 The American League was organized-1900 Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany-1933 In addition, I share a birthday with Thomas Paine, William McKinley, Anton Chekhov, John D Rockefeller Jr., W C Fields, Leadbelly, and Paddy Chayefsky. King George III of the United Kingdom, Douglas Haig, H L Mencken, and Robert Frost, on the other hand, all died on my birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/25 "2005-06-05T15:27:18Z")
The Walt Disney World Resort opened on October 1, 1971 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/26 "2005-06-05T15:30:35Z")
My Bday, 30 years before, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. My middle brother was born on the 38th anniversary of my maternal grandparents’ first wedding (they had to have a repeat because, since so many records had been lost during the war and so many “marriages” had lasted just enough for some humping, the Nationals told people who didn’t have papers to get married “again”). My youngest brother was born on the anniversary of the battle of Lepanto. Which leads to Dad’s joke that all his kids had been born in the anniversary of some disaster or other :smack: ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/27 "2005-06-05T15:35:06Z")
Pearl Harbor Day. (yes, other stuff happened, but that’s the one people remember) I was born on the exact same day as Larry Bird of basketball fame. Kind of shoots a hole right through the astrology premise. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/28 "2005-06-05T15:48:07Z")
I’ve got the Gadsden Purchase, the first performance of _Pirates of Penzance_, and UAWs first sit-down strike. Plus, I share a birthday with half of The Monkees. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/29 "2005-06-05T16:26:22Z")
_Fellowship of the Rings_ was published. Some other stuff too, but none of it was particularly interesting to me. Apparently nothing famous at all happened on exactly my birthday, though. I was born a couple days after the first test tube baby, though. That week’s Newsweek cover had a picture of her with the headline “That Baby!” My parents saved it for my baby book. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/30 "2005-06-05T16:27:32Z")
1903 - Orville aqnd Wlbur Wright take to the skies for the first time. I’ve always thought that was so cool that I never paid much attention to anything else that happened on that day. Maybe I should look it up amd show some interest… ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/31 "2005-06-05T17:47:29Z")
On September 21[sup]st[/sup]: 1776 Great fire in NY 1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andr plans to West Point 1872 John Henry Conyers of SC becomes 1st black student at Annapolis 1897 NY Sun runs famous “Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus,” editorial 1915 Stones at Stonehenge, England, sold at auction for œ6,600 1931 Britain goes off the gold standard 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien publishes “The Hobbit” 1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation 1949 People’s Republic of China proclaimed 1953 Allied forces form West Germany 1970 “Monday Night Football” on ABC premiers (Browns beat Jets 31-21) 1971 John Lennon & Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett’s only guest 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice 1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike 1988 Mike Tyson threatens a TV reporter in NJ Births: 1866 HG Wells 1874 Gustav Holst 1931 Larry Hagman 1947 Stephen King 1950 Bill Murray 1968 Ricki Lake 1971 Alfonso Ribeiro 1971 Me 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/32 "2005-06-05T18:00:16Z")
Right around 1800, my birthday was a bad day for Swedish kings. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/33 "2005-06-05T18:34:18Z")
Okay, this is pretty cool… On my birthdate in 1533, Henry VII married Anne Boleyn, and then in 1559, their daughter, Elizabeth I, was crowned on my youngest son’s birthdate…in the same month. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/34 "2005-06-05T18:35:44Z")
> [@FaerieBeth](#): > > On my birthdate in 1533, Henry VII married Anne Boleyn, Henry the VIII :smack: My finger gave out on the last “I” ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/35 "2005-06-05T19:06:36Z")
[list] [li]My last girlfriend’s dad was born. (Not in the same year.)[/li][li]The mother of the guy I carpooled with my sophomore and junior years of high school was born (again, not in the same year).[/li][li]1862: Union troops under General William Rosecrans are victorious at the battle of Iuka (Mississippi). The Battle of Iuka was part of a Confederate attempt to prevent General Ulysses S. Grant from reinforcing General Don Carlos Buell in central Tennessee.[/li][li]1881: President James Garfield dies of shooting wounds inflicted by a failed office seeker.[/li][li]1887: Dr. Graham Edgar, developer of the octane rating system, is born.[/li][li]1893: New Zealand becomes the first nation to grant national voting rights to women.[/li][li]1900: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid pull off their first robbery together, at the First National Bank in Winnemucca, Nevada.[/li][li]1941: German forces seige Leningrad and cut it off from the rest of Russia. The only route by which supplies could enter the city was via Lake Ladoga, which entailed sleds negotiating ice during the winter. More than 650,000 Leningrad citizens would die in 1942 alone, from starvation, exposure, diseases, and artillery shelling from German positions outside the city.[/li][li]1955: Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, President of Argentina, is deposed in a coup.[/li][li]1956: You Bet Your Life is canceled.[/li][li]1959: Kruschchev attempts to visit Disneyland during a diplomatic trip to the United States (President Eisenhower set up a trip for Kruschchev and his wife to visit Hollywood, as was their wish) only to find out that he is barred from entering the grounds because the government feels that the crowds would present a security danger to Mr. K. Kruschchev explodes in a rather childish outburst.[/li][li]1960: The Twist hits Number 1. It later became the only song ever to top the charts twice after becoming #1 again in 1962.[/li][li]1994: 20,000 American troops land in Haiti.[/li] (Much of this copied/pasted or lightly paraphrased from [history.com](http://history.com)) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/36 "2005-06-05T19:14:05Z")
Oh lord! I messed that one up pretty badly. “Remember to put a [/list] on the bottom, **fetus**.” Five minutes later. “Wasn’t there something I was suposed to remember about this post? Nah.” ---
**Author:** ![St\_Ides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/37 "2005-06-05T19:20:43Z")
I think I was born to be a doper… **January 23** **1960** - The bathyscaphe Trieste reached the record depth of 10,916 m (35,813 feet) in Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench. …for 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/38 "2005-06-05T19:51:13Z")
November 22 Blackbeard, Ahmed I, JFK, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Shemp Howard, Mae West, and Michael Hutchence died. Terry Gilliam, Billy Jean King, Jaimie Lee Curtis, Mariel Hemingway, Boris Becker, and Scarlett Johannsen were born. Lebanon gained independence from France. The Beatles released The White Album The stealth bomber is unveiled. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/39 "2005-06-05T20:15:06Z")
Some interesting things about May 2nd besides my birth as well. These are some Wikipedia highlights. 1920 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. 1932 - Comedian Jack Benny’s radio show airs for the first time. 1933 - The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported. 1939 - Lou Gehrig’s streak of 2130 consecutive Major League Baseball games played comes to an end. The record will stand for 56 years before Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks it. 1945 - World War II: Fall of Berlin – The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building. German forces surrender in Italy. Births, you ask? Try these on for size… Islam - Muhammad’s Birthday 1903 - Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, Olympic Games gold medalist in rowing, author (d. 1998) 1950 - Lou Gramm, American musician (Foreigner) 1972 - The Rock, professional wrestler and actor 1975 - David Beckham, English footballer Deaths? 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, inventor, painter (b. 1452) 1957 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1908) 1972 - J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI (b. 1895) ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973/40 "2005-06-05T20:19:03Z")
Heh, it’s my birthday today, what happened today? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-events-that-took-place-on-your-birthday/306973.md?page=3)