It was the nations 200th Bday. 
September 3rd, 1991:
- Frank Capra, director (It’s a Wonderful Life), dies at 94
- Henri de Lubac, French theologist/antifascist, dies
Apollo 15 launched.
July 26, 1971
I got a GI Joe jeep with working rocket launcher and working spotlight in a pull behind trailer and I didn’t give a damn what else was happening in the world. It was a great day.
My dad took me to see Return of the Jedi. It was a good day.
These were the only results I got from the link:
- Herb Caen, columnist, Lung cancer, dies at 80
- Mitchell Goodman, writer, dies at 71
- Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50
- Thelma Moss, psychologist, dies at 78
I had to click forward a year to make sure I wasn’t just in a “famous deaths” section by mistake.
For more exciting birthday events: the space shuttle Columbia accident happened on my sixteenth birthday.
Being the Australian Test Cricket Captain is widely regarded by sports nuts as Australia’s top job (we even had a Prime Minister a few years ago who thought that).
Kim Hughes was a very good player who became captain. Unfortunately a few other very good players had retired at about that time and Australia started losing. His own batting also suffered badly. An ex-Captain openly criticized Hughes in his regular newspaper column, and eventually the strain proved too much. Hughes resigned as Captain and broke down while announcing it, which is hardly surprising given that he had the ultimate job but was unsuccessful at it.
Protest!
Aren’t people using the tenth anniversary of the day they were born?
Their 10th birthday would be ten days after that.
(Never mind me).