Every year on my birthday, the swallows come back to Capistrano.
It’s also the day we invaded Iraq, which bugs the crap out of me. My birthday was once a cute little footnote of a spring day, with news shows dutifully filming these birds flapping around, but now that’s been replaced with news segments on body counts and political posturing.
I’ll just go with the really good one - MLK Jr. made his “I have a dream…” speech in Washington in 1963.
Some that I find interesting (via Wiki mostly, the rest from the IMDb)…
EVENTS [ul]
[li]1513 - Leo X is elected Pope[/li][li]1824 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs[/li][li]1851 - The first performance of Rigoletto, written by Verdi[/li][li]1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400[/li][li]1897 - A meteorite enters the earth’s atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia[/li][li]1941 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan[/li][li]1966 - Henry “Dickie” Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C.[/li][li]1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces[/li][li]1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader[/li][li]1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States[/li][li]1997 - An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan’s history[/li][li]2003 - The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague[/li][/ul]
BIRTHS [ul]
[li]1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)[/li][li]1863 - Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer (d. 1915) – I just like the word ‘cricketer’[/li][li]1876 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971) – I just like the name Ruggles :D[/li][li]1880 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)[/li][li]1898 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)[/li][li]1899 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)[/li][li]1903 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)[/li][li]1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate[/li][li]1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Austrailian media mogul[/li][li]1950 - Jerry Zucker, American movie producer [/li][li]1926 - Reverend Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d. 1990)[/li][li]1952 - Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001) !!![/li][li]1957 - Lady Chablis, American entertainer[/li][li]1959 - Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress – seems there’s lots of porn stars born on my birthday, perhaps I missed my calling![/li][li]1961 - Elias Koteas, Canadian actor[/li][li]1968 - Lisa Loeb, American singer[/li][li]1969 - Terrence Howard, American actor[/li][li]1971 - Johnny Knoxville, American television personality[/li][li]1979 - Benji and Joel Madden, American musicians (Good Charlotte)[/li][li]1982 - Thora Birch, American actress[/li][/ul]
DEATHS [ul]
[li]222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor and his mother Julia Soaemias (b. 180)[/li][li]1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444) [/li][li]1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer[/li][li]1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)[/li][li]1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804) [/li][li]1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839) [/li][li]1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881) [/li][li]1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (b. 1889) [/li][li]1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906) [/li][li]2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (b. 1941)[/li][/ul]
OTHER [ul]
[li]United States - Johnny Appleseed Day (due to this being the day of his death)[/li][li]Lithuania - Reestablishment of Lithuania’s Independence[/li][li]Lesotho - Moshoeshoe Day[/li][li]Blessed John Righi[/li][li]Saint Rosina [/li][li]Maureen O’Hara married General Charles F. Blair (1968 until his death in 1978)[/li][li]Michael Landon married Dodie Frasier (1962 – divorced, 3 children)[/li][/ul]
Here are some notable ones for me:
1881 - Gunfight at OK Corral
1940 - The P-51 Mustang (my favorite airplane!) makes its first flight
1965 - Beatles are appointed MBEs
1977 - Last case of smallpox discovered (considered the date the disease was eradicated)
2001 - USA Patriot Act was enacted :rolleyes:
2005 - White Sox win World Series
Oh yeah, and this one isn’t in Wikipedia, but:
1985 - Marty McFly goes back in time
My birthday has, historically, been a very bad day for the US, right from the very beginning.
[ul]
[li]1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.[/li][li]1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans. [/li][li]1864 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Union Army forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.[/li][li]1868 - Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder, thus setting the stage for Diebold almost a century and a half later. [/li][li]1914 - The single largest one-day decline in terms of percentage by the Dow Jones Industrial Average in recorded stock market history. Oddly, 83 years to the day later, the Dow Jones had it’s biggest increase in market history: in 1997 it gained a record 337.17 points to close at 7,498.32.[/li][li]1919 - The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. [/li][li]1922 - March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government with the assistance of the Catholic Church; pope Pius XI declares that “Mussolini is a man sent by divine providence.” Since we had to go to war with the guy, I’m counting this as bad news for the US.[/li][li]1943 - The Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occurred. [/li][li]1976 - John D. Ehrlichman, former domestic policy adviser of President Nixon and convicted Watergate felon, arrives at the Swift Trail Camp minimum-security facility in southeastern Arizona. [/li][li]2005 - Plame affair: Lewis Libby, vice president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. [/ul][/li]
Some good stuff happened on that day, though:[ul]
[li]1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University. [/li][li]1886 - In New York Harbor, Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. [/li][li]1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. [/li][li]1965 - Nostra Aetate, the “Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions” of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III’s declaration from 760 years ago. In short, Pope Paul VI announces that the ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ.[/li][li]1981 - The heavy metal band Metallica is founded in San Francisco. [/li][li]1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 points to close at 7,498.32.[/ul][/li]
I share my birthday with:
1818 (O.S.) - Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
1903 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)
1907 - Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
1914 - Jonas Salk, American medical scientist (d. 1995)
1936 - Charlie Daniels, American musician
1938 - Anne Perry, English-born novelist
1944 - Dennis Franz, American actor
1949 - Bruce Jenner, American athlete
1952 - Annie Potts, American actress
1955 - Bill Gates, American software pioneer
1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
1967 - Julia Roberts, American actress
1967 - John Romero, American video game designer
1969 - Ben Harper. American musician
1972 - Terrell Davis, American football player
1974 - Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican-born actor
The following folks exited stage left on the day I was born:
312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
1818 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
Thanks for the way cool link Shakes.
Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of July 29:
1805 Alexis de Tocqueville France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
1861 Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1869 Booth Tarkington US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)
1871 [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin the mad Russian monk
1878 Don Marquis Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel)
1883 Benito Mussolini [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43)
1887 Sigmund Romberg Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time)
1892 William Powell actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey)
1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi Poland, physicist (explored atom-Nobel-1944)
19-- David Sederholm Phila Pa, actor (Bill Hayes-Ryan’s Hope)
19-- Evan Rogers Northampton Mass, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)
19-- Jack Blessing Balt Md, actor (Chip Frye-Small & Frye)
19-- Jeanetta Arnette Wash DC, actress (Bernadette-Head of the Class)
19-- John Sykes rocker (Sleep Relaxation)
19-- Paul Sylvan NYC, actor (Woody-Busting Loose)
1900 Don Redman Piedmont WV, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times)
1900 Eyvind Johnson Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974)
1905 Clara Bow silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid)
1905 Dag Hammarskj”ld 2nd UN Secretary-General (1953-61) (Nobel 1961)
1905 Thelma Todd actress (Dangerous Female, Devil’s Brother)
1907 Melvin Belli Sonora Calif, lawyer, SF’s “King of Torts”
1913 Stephen McNally NYC, actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo)
1914 "Professor Irwin Corey comedian (Car Wash)
1921 Richard Egan SF Calif, actor (Empire, Redigo, Pollyanna)
1924 Lloyd Bochner Toronto, (Cecil-Dynasty, Lonely Lady, Naked Gun 2«)
1924 Robert Horton LA Calif, actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena)
1925 Mikis Theodorakis Chios Greece, composer (Raven)
1926 Russel Firestone polo great (Circle F-1959 champs)
1930 Paul Taylor dancer & choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company)
1932 Nancy Kassebaum (Sen-R-Ks)
1933 Robert Fuller Troy NY, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train)
1935 Peter Schreier Meissen Germany, tenor (Dressden State Opera 1961)
1936 Elizabeth Dole US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87)
1938 Peter Jennings Toronto Canada, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1941 David Warner Manchester NH, actor (Holocaust)
1943 Roz Kelly Mt Vernon NY, actress (Owl & Pussycat, Happy Days)
1946 Neal Doughty keyboardist (REO)
1950 Radu Voina Romania, team handball (Oly-silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80)
1951 Leslie Easterbrook LA Calif, actress (Ryan’s Hope, Police Acadamy 5)
1953 Geddy Lee lead singer (Rush-Tom Sawyer)
1959 Gary Springer NYC, actor (Bernice Bobs Her Hair)
1959 Nelli Kim USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1976)
1963 Alexandra Paul NYC, actress (Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet)
1964 Lisa Peluso actress (Search for Tomorrow, Ava Alden Rescott-Loving)
1972 Wil Wheaton actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me)
1973 Stephen Dorff Atlanta, actor (I Know My Name is Steven)
1973 Wanya Morris [Squirt], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
Deaths which occurred on July 29:
1030 King Olav Haraldsson of Norway, dies in battle of Stiklestad
1164 King Olaf of Norway, dies
1890 Vincent Van Gogh dies in Auvers, France
1900 Umberto I Italian king assassinated by anarchist Gaetano Bresci
1960 Richard Simon cofounder of Simon & Shuster, dies
1974 Cass Elliot singer of Mamas & Papas chokes to death at 30 in London
1982 Harold Sakata actor (Kenji-Sarge), dies at 62
1983 David Niven actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73
1983 Luis Bu¤uel movie director, dies at 83 of cirrhosis of liver
1983 Raymond Massey actor, dies of pneumonia in Beverly Hills, Calif at 86
1984 Fred Waring orch leader (Fred Waring Show), dies at 84
1984 Woodrow Parfey actor (Time Express), dies at 61 of a heart attack
1985 James F Nolan actor (Dante), dies of cancer at 69
1988 Ellin Berlin (MacKay) Mrs Irving Berlin, dies at 86
On this day…
1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders
1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane
1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England,
beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 mins in England
1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghenies, Pitts Gazette
1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
1844 New York Yacht Club forms
1851 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #15 Eunomia
1858 1st commercial treaty between US & Japan signed
1858 US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
1899 Southern Calif Golf Assn formed
1908 St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila Athletics
1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF
1915 US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924
1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
1924 Paul Runyan wins the PGA golf championship
1928 Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” is released
Cleve Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field
they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game
1930 115ø F (46ø C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
1936 RCA shows the 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives,
Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)
1937 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1431 Luanda
1938 Olympic National Park established
1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va
1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
1956 Cathy Cornelius wins the US Women’s Golf Open in a playoff
1956 Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
1957 Jack Paar’s Tonight show premiers
1958 Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958
1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1960 J Schubart discovers asteroid #2000 Herschel
1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
1961 Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1965 Beatles movie “Help” premiers, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
1967 Explosion & Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134, $100 million in damage
1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirms stand against artificial birth control
1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee
1974 St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
1975 Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1978 600,000 attend “Summer Jam” rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY
1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer
1982 Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
1983 “Friday Night Videos” premiers on NBC TV
1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1984 Summer Olympics opens in LA
1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
1986 NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
1987 Ben & Jerry’s & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1988 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989
1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes
1988 South African govt bans anti-apartheid film “Cry Freedom”
1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8’0") in San Juan
1989 Phillies retire Steve Carltons # 32
1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)
1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7+ carat engagement ring
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given “day of the week”
Norway : Olsok Eve Festival (1030)
Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - - - - - ( Friday )
I somehow feel all honored that my birthday is also the day of the Garlic Festival. 
Born:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Keith Olbermann
Cris Collinsworth
Bridget Fonda
Donna Reed
Samuel Gompers
Mimi Rogers
Died:
Thomas Crapper
Andre the Giant
Jack Paar
Events:
Michael Jackson sets his hair on fire during a commercial shoot (the very day I was born!)
Apollo 1 catches fire on the launchpad, killing the crew
Auschwitz and Birkenau are liberated by the Red Army
Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending the Vietnam War
April 10th[ol]
[li]1912 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and last voyage[/li][li]1963 - The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians). [/li][li]1968 - Shipwreck of the Wahine outside Wellington harbour. [/li][li]1991 - Italian ferry “Moby Prince” collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. [/li][/ol]
So, uh, if you plan to go somewhere by ocean, don’t be out on the water on my birthday, okay?
In the year 1310, 54 members of the Knights Templar were burned at the stake in France for being heretics.
I also share a birthday with Irving Berlin, Phil Silvers, Dr. Robert Jarvik and Natasha Richardson.
Perhaps more relevant to the people on this board, Douglas Adams died on my birthday.
On July 21st in history;
-356BC- The Temple of Artemis in Epheseus was destroyed.
-1925- John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution.
-1954- The Fellowship of the Ring was published in the UK.
-1969- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first people to walk on the moon.
-1972- The Bloody Friday bombings take place.
-2005- Unsuccessful London bombings take place.
Birthdays (these three are the only names I recognise)-
-356BC- Alexander the Great
-1899- Ernest Hemingway
-1951- Robin Williams
And deaths (again, people i’ve heard of)-
-1796- Robbie Burns
-1944- Claus von Stauffenburg
-2006- Mako
My birthday is also a holiday in Belgium, Bolivia, Guam, Russia, and Singapore.
Births:
1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1683 - King Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Russian-born leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1915 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
1940 - Phil Ochs, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1976)
1941 - Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1944 - Richard Leakey, British anthropologist
1946 - Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
1957 - Kevin McHale, American profesional basketball player
1960 - Mike Lookinland, American actor (Brady Bunch)
1969 - Kristy Swanson, American actress
1969 - Richard Hammond, British television presenter
1970 - Tyson Beckford, American male supermodel
1971 - Tiffany Towers, Canadian adult film actress
1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress
1972 - Warren Sapp, American football player
1973 - Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist
1974 - Jake Plummer, American football player
1974 - Ricky Ponting, Australian test cricketer
1975 - Olivier Tebily, Ivorian international footballer
1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
1980 - Marla Sokoloff, American actress
1983 - Kahlen Rondot, American model
And on the day I was born -
A Clockwork Orange debuted in theaters.
August 19th
Birthday shared with:
Matthew Perry
William Jefferson Blythe Clinton
Ogden Nash
Philo T. Farnsworth
Malcolm Forbes
Tipper Gore
Adam Arkin
Jonathan Frakes
Deaths:
Grouch Marx
Various other people whose significance is not readily apparent to me
Events:
1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union
Various other events, the significance of which is not readily apparent to me
From wikipedia, this caught my eye:
January 29:
Thomas Paine, William McKinley, W. C. Fields, Paddy Chayefsky, and Oprah Winfrey were born.
Douglas Haig, Harry Hopkins, H. L. Mencken, Robert Frost, and Basil Liddell Hart died.
The Compromise of 1850 was introduced in the Senate, the Victorian Cross was created by Royal Warrant, Liliuokalani became the last ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, the American League was organized, and Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
kunilou was born on my birthday.
On my birthday – the actual day I was born – Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat.
Sept. 16
I’ve been aware for years and years the usual “you share a birthday with” celebs: Lauren Bacall, B.B. King, Peter Faulk.
But this is another interesting group that I discovered at the cool link Shakes provided.
1880 Alfred Noyes England, poet (The Highwayman)
Damn, I loved that poem as a kid!
1926 Robert Schuller televangelist (Glass Cathedral)
AAACK!
1949 Ed Begley Jr LA Cal, actor (Eating Raoul, St Elsewhere, Parenthood)
I always loved him on St. Elsewhere
1958 Jennifer Tilly LA Calif, actress (Let it Ride, Off Beat, Psycho II)
We share the same birth date, not just birthday. Google up some images of Jennifer Tilly. Yep, that’s how I look on the cusp of 48 – NOT!
Deaths which occurred on September 16:
1498 Tomas de Torquemada inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies
BWA-HA-HA-HA!
Will you convert? NO NO NO NO
Will you confess? NO NO NO NO
Will you revert? NO NO NO NO
Will you say YES? NO NO NO NO
And the most personally meaningful event to occur on my birthday:
1963 “Outer Limits” premiers on TV
Rather than copy and paste someone else’s research, Here is what happened on June 24
Its from Timelines To find out what happened on a particular day click on the “Days Jan-June” or “July-Dec” on the next page, click on the date you want.
November 29!
Selected Events:
1781 - The slave ship Zong dumps its living cargo into the sea in order to claim insurance.
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1890 - The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1972 - Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.
1975 - The name “Micro-soft” (for “microcomputer software”) is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.
1981 - Actress Natalie Wood drowns during a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California.
Selected Co-Birthday Humans:
1803 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (d. 1853)
1832 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (d. 1888)
1849 - Sir John Ambrose Fleming, British physicist (d. 1945)
1895 - Busby Berkeley, American film director, and choreographer (d. 1976)
1898 - C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (d. 1963)
1918 - Madeleine L’Engle, American author
1932 - Jacques Chirac, President of France
1932 - Diane Ladd, American actress
1933 - John Mayall, British blues musician
1939 - Peter Bergman, American comedian
1949 - Jerry Lawler, American professional wrestler and commentator
1949 - Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director
1955 - Howie Mandel, Canadian actor
1964 - Don Cheadle, American actor
1965 - Ellen Cleghorne, American comedian
1969 - Mariano Rivera, Panamanian baseball player
1976 - Anna Faris, American actress
And then George Harrison died on my birthday in 2001. 
Me too!
And Hank Aaron hit his 500th homerun on 7/14/68.