What happened on your birth date?

In My Humble Opinion
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June 12.

Birthday shared with:
[ul][li]David Rockefeller[/li][li]Irwin Allen[/li][li]Uta Hagen[/li][li]George H.W. Bush[/li][li]Anne Frank[/li][li]Jim Nabors[/ul][/li]Deaths:
[ul][li]Medgar Evers[/li][li]Milburn Stone[/li][li]Nicole Simpson[/li][li]Ron Goldman[/ul][/li]Events:
[ul][li]Nelson Mandela jailed[/li][li]Human-powered Gossamer Albatross flies over the English Channel[/li][li]Maj. Robert M. White flies X-15 to 56,270m[/li][li]Austro-Hungarian Empire forms[/li][li]William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon[/li][li]First Naval battle of the American Revolution (Unity (US) captures Margaretta (British))[/li][li]George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC[/li][li]First airplane bombing raid by an American unit (1918)[/li][li]Mount Pinatubo erupts[/ul][/li]That’s enough for now…

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March 26

1707 - The Act of Union becomes law, uniting England and Scotland into one state, the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1839 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.

1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

1958 - The United States Army launches Explorer III.

1979 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, DC.

Born on:

1874 - Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)

1904 - Joseph Campbell, American author (d. 1987)

1911 - Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983)

1916 - Sterling Hayden, American actor (d. 1986)

1919 - Strother Martin, American actor (d. 1980)

1930 - Sandra Day O’Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1931 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director

1934 - Alan Arkin, American actor

1940 - James Caan, American actor

1940 - Nancy Pelosi, American politician

1942 - Erica Jong, American author

1943 - Bob Woodward, American journalist

1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)

1985 - Keira Knightley, English actress

Deaths:

1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)

1892 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)

1902 - Cecil Rhodes, English explorer (b. 1853)

1973 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)

2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941)

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July 14

Bastille Day - my birthday is a national holiday in France.

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1587 Sir Frances Drake sinks Spanish fleet
1775 Revolution begins - “shot heard round the world”
1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising begins
1993 Branch Davidians standoff in Waco TX ends with the deaths of 4 FBI Agents and numerous deaths from suicide of the cult members
1995 Truck bomb outside Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500

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Events:
800 - Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
1776 - George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain’s Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
1926 - Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan, succeeding the Taisho Emperor.
1932 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills ~70,000 people.
1939 - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is introduced by Montgomery Ward stores.
1973 - The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day).

Births
1642 (O.S.) - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1727)
1821 - Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross (d. 1912)
1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)

1878 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automotive pioneer (d. 1941)
1890 - Robert Ripley, world traveler and collector of odd facts and artifacts (d. 1949)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
1907 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)
1924 - Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (d. 1975)
1946 - Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter
1950 - Karl Rove, American presidential advisor
1954 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer (Eurythmics)

Deaths
1946 - W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880)
1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)
1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)
1996 - JonBenét Ramsey, American Beauty Queen*, murdered (b. 1990)
*That’s really what it says

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Well, there was this REALLY Big Bang…

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The only things I know off the top of my head are that I share a birthday with Irving Berlin and Eric Burden of the Animals.

And that Douglas Adams died on my birthday in 2001.

Looking it up in Wiki-
Cats closed in London in 2000
A DC-9 crashed in the Florida Everglades in 1996
The first contraceptive pill was put on the market in 1960
Siam became Thailand in 1949
The Pulman Strike began in 1894
Minnesota joined the Union in 1858

and some other not as intersting stuff.

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January 23

Birthday shared with:
[ul]
[li]Jeanne Moreau[/li][li]Ernie Kovacs[/li][li]Robin Zander[/li][li]Mariska Hargitay[/li][li]Richard Dean Anderson[/li][li]Django Rienhardt[/li][li]Gail O’Grady[/li][li]Tiffany Thiessen[/li][li]Anita Pointer[/li][li]Chita Rivera[/li][li]Gil Gerard[/li][li]Rutger Hauer[/li][/ul]

Deaths of Johnny Carson, Salvador Dali, and Captain Kangaroo

Events:
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Picard and Walsh go to the bottom of the Marianas Trench (for 20 minutes, back in 1960).

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Ooops–add Randolph Scott to the birthday list.

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And Voila! Zoe is born roughly about the same time as the storming of the Bastille!

(Actually, Montogomery and Patton were racing through Sicily in 1943 and Mick Jagger’s Mum was wondering if that baby was ever going to have the satisfaction of settling down and being born.

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I can’t find a good site which tells all this. All I found was an Alaskan earthquake. March 27.

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On my actual birthdate (spring 1967), the song With a Little Help from my Friends was recorded live, easily the finest track in the stellar career of Billy Shears. :smiley:

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September 8

Births:

(Traditionally, this is the date that the Roman Catholic church celebrates the birth of Mary)
1157 - King Richard I of England
1922 - Sid Caesar, American comedian
1932 - Patsy Cline, American singer

Deaths:
1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer
2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director
2006 - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver and TV personality

Events:
1900 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

1935 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed “Kingfish”, is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.

1966 - “The Man Trap”, the first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek airs.

1986 - The first Oprah Winfrey Show airs.

1994 - A Boeing 737 operating USAir Flight 427 carrying 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport. There are no survivors.

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Linky for those intrested.

Birthdates on Aug-13:

1422 William Caxton 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
1655 Johann Christoph Denner inventor (clarinet)
1802 Nikolaus Lenau Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
1814 Anders Jonas ngstr”m Sweden, physicist, founded spectroscopy
1818 Lucy Stone pioneered women’s rights
1819 Sir George Gabriel Stokes physicist/mathematician (Spectroscope)
1820 Sir George Grove London, England, biblical scholar/musicologist
1860 Annie Oakley Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill’s Wild West)
1888 John Logie Baird Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
1895 Robert Burton actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row)
1898 Jean Borota France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)
1899 Alfred Hitchcock London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)
19-- Alex Donnelley Frankfurt Germany, actress (Young & Restless)
19-- Alma Cuervo Tampa Fla, actress (Sylvia-AKA Pablo)
19-- Hank Cheyne actor (Another World, Young & Restless)
19-- Jane Carr actress (Louise-Dear John)
19-- Sid Falck rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
1902 Felix Wankel Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
1902 Regis Toomey Pitts Pa, actor (Burke’s Law, Petticoat Junction)
1904 Charles “Buddy” Rogers actor (Wings)
1907 Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp Essen Germany, arms manufacturer
1908 Gene Raymond NYC, actor (Paris 7000, Fireside Theater)
1909 John Beal actor (Amityville 3D)
1912 Ben Hogan Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)
1912 Rita Johnson Worcester Mass, actress (All Mine to Give)
1918 Frederick Sanger England, chemist (Nobel 1958, 1980)
1919 Rex Humbard televanglist
1920 George Shearing London, blind pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland)
1921 Neville Brand actor (Cahill, US Marshal)
1927 Fidel Castro Ruz Cuban political leader (1959- )
1929 Pat Harrington Jr NYC, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time)
1930 Don Ho Hawaii, ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles)
1931 Norman Read NZ, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 Gary Davidson founder of ABA, WHA, WFL
1939 Saul Steinberg artist (The Art of Living)
1942 Robert L Stewart Wash DC, Brig Gen US Army/astronaut (STS 41B, 51J)
1943 Gary Ilman US, 100m freestyle (Olympic-4th-1964)
1947 Gretchen Corbett Camp Sherman Ore, actress (Beth-Rockford Files)
1948 Kathleen Battle Portsmouth Ohio, soprano (Shephard-Tannh„user)
1949 Bobby Clarke Manitoba, NHL player/coach (Phila Flyers)
1949 Sheralee Ft Lauderdale Fla, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
195- Kavi Raz India, actor (VJ Kochar-St Elsewhere)
1951 Dan Fogelberg Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne)
1955 Betsy King LPGA golfer (1990 Dinah Shore, 1990 US Women’s Open)
1958 Feargal Sharkey rocker (Undertones-Never Never, Good Heart)
1959 Danny Bonaduce actor (Danny-Partridge Family) (1959 approx)
1959 Mark Nevin rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1961 Dawnn Lewis actress (Jaleesa-Different World)
1963 Pamela Jean Stein Syracuse NY, playmate (Nov, 1987)
1963 Tigg Ketler Chula Vista Ca, drummer (Bang Tango-Dancin’ on Coals)
1964 Ian Haughland heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
1967 Quinn Cummings LA Calif, actress (Annie-Family, Goodbye Girl)

Heh, overkill…

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Try the Wikipedia entry for March 27

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Your mother must have been so pleased… :wink:

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July 6 here.
These are the events most notable to me:

1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.

1908 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.

Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the “Secret Annex” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

1957 - Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.

2004 - John Kerry names John Edwards his as his Vice Presidential running mate on the Democratic Party ticket.

2005 - Bob Geldof and Bono meet with the G8 in Gleneagles to discuss increasing aid to Africa. Afterwards, both make appearances at the Edinburgh 50,000 concert, a last concert in the Live 8 series.

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And nine months later, Oakminster was born.

[quote=Dr. Rieux]
[ul][li]Ernie Kovacs[/ul][/li][/quote]

Coincidentally, I watched a couple versions of the Nairobi Trio sketch on youtube the other day.

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Off the top of my head, I know that Gordon Cooper was launched into space on the last Project Mercury mission on the day I was born.

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September 21

Other births:[ul][li]HG Wells[/li][li]Gustav Holst[/li][li]Chuck Jones[/li][li]Larry Hagman[/li][li]Stephen King (and the fictional Carrie)[/li][li]Bill Murray[/li][li]Dave Coulier[/li][li]Ricki Lake[/li][li]Alfonso Ribeiro[/li][li]Liam Gallagher[/li][li]Nicole Richie[/ul][/li]Deaths:[ul][li]Nathan Hale[/li][li]Walter Brennan[/li][li]Florence Griffith Joyner[/ul][/li]Events:[ul][li]1893 Frank Duryea drives 1st US-made, gas-propelled vehicle (car)[/li][li]1895 1st auto manufacturer opens – Duryea Motor Wagon Company[/li][li]1897 NY Sun runs famous “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” editorial [/li][li]1931 Britain goes off the gold standard [/li][li]1937 J.R.R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit[/li][li]1948 “Texaco Star Theater” with Milton Berle premieres on NBC[/li][li]1957 “Perry Mason” with Raymond Burr premiers on CBS[/li][li]1970 “Monday Night Football” premiers on ABC (Browns beat Jets 31-21)[/li][li]1971 John Lennon & Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett’s only guests[/li][li]1981 Sandra Day O’Connor becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice [/li][li]1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike[/li][li]1982 SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs [/li][/ul]