This is kind of a pointless thing to say but for some reason I feel like writing it. I turned 20 exactly when that plane hit the pentagon. I used to say nothing ever happened on my birthday. I wish nothing ever did. My birthday will never be the same, but I’m infinatly glad I got to live through it. Anyone else born on this now morbid date?
I used to think my birthday, Dec. 24th, sucked eggs.
I was wrong.
Look at it this way: if everything works out, it won’t be any less tragic…but at least it’ll be remembered as the point at which things began to turn around.
(I know it’s lame. But WTF else could I say?)
Happy Birthday…a friend of my husbands gave birth to her daughter on Tuesday.
1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island
1773 Benjamin Franklin writes “There never was a good war or bad peace.”
1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; Americans defeat British
1839 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1850 “Swedish Nightingale” Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
1853 1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant’s Exchange to Pt Lobos
1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1886 Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America’s Cup
1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure “The Crooked Man” (BG)
1893 Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1912 Phila A’s Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks
1923 The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY’s tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower
1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1926 US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
1926 Yanks’ Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1928 1st TV drama-WGY’s The Queens Messenger
1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1935 US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year
1936 A’s pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1944 FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference
1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast
1956 Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
1959 Elroy Face’s 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
1959 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
1960 The 17th Olympic games close in Rome
1961 Bob Dylan’s 1st NY performance
1962 Beatles cut “Love Me Do” & “PS I Love You”
1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company
1964 Gillette’s 20 year contract with MSG & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at the Cleve Auditorium
1965 Beatles’ “Help!,” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1966 Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
1967 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
1972 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
1973 Chile’s President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan & John Milner come to bat 12 times each
1976 Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins)
1977 Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy O’Connors wins US Open
1977 TV’s Rhoda gets divorced
1982 Chris Evert 6th US open title defeats Hana Mandlikava
1983 Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards
1985 Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
1985 Pete Rose of the Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb’s record
1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1988 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
1991 “La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family” goes on sale
1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
Mine too. What a strange thing it is. My friends kept calling and saying, “Hey, I hope you can have a happy birthday in spite of all of this.”
Now, I don’t really get all into my birthday, but these calls were for some reason very hard to deal with. I couldn’t figure out what to say. Well, yeah, there was the death and destruction, but I’m trying to suck it up and have a good birthday anyway? Weird.
The Challenger blew up on my 12th birthday, in front of my whole class, who were eating my mom’s cupcakes at the time.
I know how you feel, kiddo.
As I posted in a thread yesterday, my oldest nephew turned 21 on Tuesday and my birthday is the 12th. I tried to at least appreciate the well wishes on my birthday but all the time I sat there fairly numb from this whole nightmare.
From now on, my family and I will always be reminded of this tragedy for two days in a row.
yo! Tito, Sept. 11th IS STILL your birthday! you are alive that is a good reason to celebrate! i wish you the best, and many more to come!
1991 “La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family” goes on sale (now there is a tragedy!)
How about posponing it - yea I know you can’t just be born on another day but maybe celebrate it a month from now.
So far I know of two babies who were born on Tuesday. I think it’s comforting to know that not everything was tainted by that day-- sweet and innocent events took place, too. Your own birthday is still something to celebrate, no matter how tragic other events of the day are.
I am kind of curious why the terrorists choose that specific day? It could vary well be that it was just a random day, in fact I’m quessing it was. But does anybody know if the day would have any significance to the terrorists either in the Gregorian calendar or the Islamic calander ( I don’t mean to say that they have a 9/11 but on what ever day it fell on according to their lunar calendar.
Tito,
FWIW, may you have many more birthdays. There will come a time when you will have a happy birthday and remember the vicims simultaneously.
magdalene, I turned 22 on January 28, 1986.
Sir Rhosis
Yeah, Tuesday was also my good friend’s birthday. He decided that he’d have to do something glorious and wonderful for all of humankind to redeem his birthday. Any ideas?
My grandmother celebrated her 91st birthday Tuesday. Sort of comforting when I think of her in comparison to everything else that happened that day.
My mom turned 62 on Tuesday. She told us to just skip it please and not ever mention her birthday again. 
My birthday was Wednesday the 12th… I haven’t really got anything else to say, except for my response to the OP.
The one year anversary of my sisters death was Tuesday. I really felt weird for feeling sorry for myself at all.
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I know exactly how you feel. The space shuttle blew up on my own birthday.
MrsB’s birthday party was ruined four years ago by the death of Diana. She still gets a lot of ‘oh, isn’t it sad about Diana’ if she holds a party after that date-- but nothing if it’s thrown beforehand.
You may want to consider shifting party dates early for the next few years.
I was bummed about my date because nothing had happened on it. Then I found in an old almanac that it had once been a holiday in Tennessee. I was so proud and telling people, but then someone told me it was no longer a holiday because it had honored the founder of the KKK!