# What else happened the day you were conceived? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168 "2016-06-23T17:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![appleaday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@appleaday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleaday)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/21 "2016-06-24T06:39:10Z")
Eisenhower warned against intervention in Vietnam. Some figure skaters won some championships. Sounds like it was a dull day. Unless you were a figure skater, of course. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/22 "2016-06-24T07:32:10Z")
Is there some trick to finding out this date? because I can’t remember if I was “late” and isn’t it all an estimate anyway? Records for those times were slight, and for my region even slighter. Counting back 9 months from my date of birth tells me that the first trial flight of the Concorde happened then. The best selling book was Portnoy’s Complaint, and the top selling single (in the UK, though that’s not where I was conceived) was [this monstrosity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x8D4T--0v4) by Paul McCartney’s brother. ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/23 "2016-06-24T09:28:17Z")
My dad was arrested in a public toilet block, I fulfilled my life’s purpose by proving his heterosexuality in court a few months later as a bump. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/24 "2016-06-24T12:01:51Z")
Counting back nine months, and adding the two weeks I was overdue, brings us right to my father’s birthday. In theory, I don’t suppose my parents having sex on that date is any more disturbing than any other date, but… Ewww. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/25 "2016-06-24T12:21:55Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Counting back nine months, and adding the two weeks I was overdue, brings us right to my father’s birthday. In theory, I don’t suppose my parents having sex on that date is any more disturbing than any other date, but… Ewww. Just think, you weren’t a blowjob. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/26 "2016-06-26T00:11:17Z")
On or about July 6, 1949, per **TonySinclair** ’s link: > [@](#): > > Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes I thought that was for 20 minutes, in 1960. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/27 "2016-06-26T00:26:38Z")
My parents celebrated their 20th anniversary. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/28 "2016-06-26T19:49:45Z")
I heard that the sun and the moon stood still the day I was conceived. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/29 "2016-07-02T06:41:11Z")
June 14, 1983 was just a dull day all around, from what I can tell. [“Prince Charles & Princess Diana arrive at the Port of Halifax to board Britannia, moored at Pier 36, at the end of their first day in Canada”](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/486388828478956857/) The Pope went to Poland. [“WHFS Radio in Bethesda, MD, one of the premier progressive radio stations in the country, goes off the air, June 14, 1983. It does come back to radio later, in a new town.”](https://archive.org/details/WHFSTape2AEndWeasel) (I’ve never lived in Maryland or anywhere on the East Coast, but, oddly enough, I think a distant branch of my dad’s side with my rather unusual last name ended up in that state.) In short, Reagan was in office, “Flashdance (What A Feeling)” was on the radio, and my parents would have their first child nine months later. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/30 "2016-07-02T13:21:45Z")
What **else?**. As if that wasn’t historical enough? ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/31 "2016-07-02T15:01:17Z")
> [@kk\_fusion](#): > > New Year’s evening/morning most likely. Same here. New Years Eve, 1955. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/32 "2016-07-02T15:49:56Z")
Couple of comets, sun and moon danced in the sky, ranks of singing angels in the sky. You know, the usual. Oh, and Nevil Shute died. No, I wasn’t conceived on the beach. I don’t think so, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/33 "2016-07-04T14:22:15Z")
If my calculations are correct, I think I know what my mom got for Mother’s Day. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168/34 "2016-07-04T16:21:59Z")
According to Wikipedia, nothing. I’m brackets by shipwrecks (Wikipedia is obsessed with shipwrecks) but me? Nada. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168.md?page=1)