# What happened on your birthday? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730 "2006-04-07T15:49:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/21 "2006-04-07T19:03:35Z")
August 5 Events: 1861 - American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872). 1949 - In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000. 1999 - Mark McGwire becomes the 16th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. (yay hometown fact) Births: 1930 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut 1964 - Adam Yauch, American musician (MCA from Beastie Boys) Deaths: 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/22 "2006-04-07T19:10:07Z")
Presidents used to be inaugurated, I think until 1936. I suppose March 4 was chosen as the day because what with the primitive conditions in 1800 it might take four months to reach Washington after being elected. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/23 "2006-04-07T19:14:19Z")
May 21 996 - Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1856 - Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. 1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton. 1904 - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) founded in Paris. 1917 - Great Atlanta fire of 1917 1927 - Charles Lindbergh touchs down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932 - Amelia Earhart, because of bad weather, lands in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1956 - Nuclear testing: In the Pacific Ocean, Bikini Atoll is nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb. 1980 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back opens in theaters. 2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorje climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu’s record from the previous year. Births 427 BC - Plato, Greek philosopher (d. 347 BC) 1526 - King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598) 1792 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843) 1844 - Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910) 1972 - The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d. 1997) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/24 "2006-04-07T19:37:35Z")
February 7 Facts: 1914 - Charlie Chaplin first appears as “The Tramp”, as his first film _Kid Auto Races At Venice_ is released at Keystone Studios. 1964 - The Beatles arrive on their first visit to the United States. 1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune’s orbit for the first time since either planet was known to science. (I comment on this to my grade school classmates, and get promptly branded as an idiot. “Everyone knows that Pluto is the farthest planet!”, they exclaim. Attempts to prove that for the next several years, this will not be the case prove fruitless. Moronic science teacher agrees with the rest of the class) Births: 1962 - Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian 1965 - Chris Rock, American comedian and actor Good day for funny mother fuckers to be born. Deaths: 1979 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911) ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/25 "2006-04-07T19:50:08Z")
June 25 Events: The battle of Little Bighorn The Korean War begins Windows 98 is released Births: June Lockhart, Carly Simon, and George Orwell Deaths: Most notable of course, George Armstrong Custer Also noteworth, the Day of Antichristmas - or so Wikepedia says. I’ll have to do my Satanist rituals on my birthday from now on. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/26 "2006-04-07T19:54:09Z")
Events: Mutiny on the _Bounty_ (1789) Admiral Farragut captures New Orleans (1862) Thor Heyerdahl sets sail on the _Kon-Tiki_ (1947) (Clearly an auspicious day for sea voyages, unless you’re a Captain in the Royal Navy.) Births: Saddam Hussein (1937) Jessica Alba (1981) (And people say there’s nothing to astrology!) Bonus birth: Jorge “Hurley” Garcia (1979) Death: Conrad of Montferrat, Crusader King of Jerusalem, assassinated by the original assasins themselves, the Hashshashin (1192) ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/27 "2006-04-07T19:55:59Z")
Make that “noteworthy”. I’m beginning to notice a disturbing undercurrent in my life, though. My unsocial insecurity number ends in “666”. And now I found out I was born on Antichristmas Day. Good thing I’m not stupidstitious. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/28 "2006-04-07T21:14:51Z")
July 18 64 The great fire of Rome 1536 birth of the Church of England 1830 Uruguay adopts its constution 1873 Oscar II crowned king of Norway 1898 Madame Curie discovers…Polonium 🙂 1925 Hitler publishes his manifesto (maybe I should have left that one out) 1944 Tojo retires as PM of Japan 1966 Gemini 10 is launched 1976 Nadia Comanechi scores the first ever perfect 10 score 1977 Vietnam joins the UN Births 1670 Giovanni Bononcini (composer) 1913 Red Skelton (actor/comedian) 1918 Nelson Mandela (politician/nobel prize winner) 1921 John Glenn (astronaut/senator) 1940 James Brolin (better known as Mr Streisand) 1967 Vin Diesel (wannabe actor) 19?? ME!!! Deaths 1610 Michaelangelo Merisi (artist) 1817 Jane Austen (writer) 1872 Benito Juarez (mexican president) 1918 Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna Prince Ioann Konstantinovich Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich Prince Igor Konstantinovich Royal members of the Romanov family, executed by the bolsheviks ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/29 "2006-04-07T21:41:42Z")
May 16 Events: 1868 - President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate. 1918 - The Sedition Act is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government a jailable offense. 1943 - World War II: The Dambuster Raids by RAF 617 Squadron on German dams. Births: 1718 - [Maria Gaetana Agnesi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gaetana_Agnesi), Italian mathematician (d. 1799) 1845 - [Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ilyich_Mechnikov), Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916) Deaths: 1620 - [William Adams](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams), English navigator and samurai (b.1564) ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/30 "2006-04-07T21:50:27Z")
The version of the LJ meme that came my way asked for two deaths, and I’m just copying and pasting, so. May 11 Cool Events 1934 - Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America. 1997 - IBM’s Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. 2000 - Last performance of the musical Cats (musical) in London’s West End. Births 1904 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan painter (d. 1989) 1916 - Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002) Deaths 1916 - Max Reger, German composer (b. 1873) 2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952) ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/31 "2006-04-07T22:03:46Z")
Facts - 1504 - Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Florence. 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War. 1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office Births - 1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199) 1841 - Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (d. 1904) 1979 - Pink, American singer Deaths - 701 - Pope Sergius I 1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864) 1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922) ---
**Author:** ![Logan\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Logan\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logan_5)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/32 "2006-04-07T22:59:39Z")
October 12- The Day my mother screamed 1492 - Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. The indigenous gov’t denies his visa due to new immigration policies. 1960 - Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting over the shortage of left shoes. 1999 - The Day of 6 Billion: The 6 billionth human in the world is born. The other 5,999,999,999 humans hate this johnny-come-lately. 1875 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist and author (d. 1947) 1968 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer 1978 - Nancy Spungen, Girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious b. 1958) ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/33 "2006-04-07T23:07:11Z")
And I just realized that I posted way more things then the OP asked for, I really need to pay more attention. I’ll just be in the corner, lashing myself with a wet noodle. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/34 "2006-04-07T23:10:08Z")
June 18: Events: 1778- American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia PA 1873- Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote Births: 1903- Jeanette MacDonald, actress/singer 1942- Paul McCartney, ex-Beatle Death: 1959- Ethel Barrymore, actress ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/35 "2006-04-07T23:16:49Z")
August 21 Fact 1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales. 1841 - The Venetian blind is first patented in the United States by John Hampson. 1911 - The Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee. Births 1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress 1969 - Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater 1981 - Ludy, another really cool Canadian 😃 Death 1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/36 "2006-04-07T23:17:36Z")
July 29 Events: 1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland 1921 - Adolph Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialists German Workers Party 1958 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Births: 1883 - Benito Mussolini - Italian dictator 1938 - Peter Jennings - Canadian born tv journalist 1966 - Martina McBride - American country singer Death: 1870 - Vincent Van Gogh - Dutch painter ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/37 "2006-04-08T00:21:23Z")
Born: 1810- P.T. Barnum 1996- Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal. Died: 2002-Ted Williams Events: 1865- The world’s first maximum speed law is implemented in England. 1934- “Bloody Thursday” Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. 1954- Elvis has his first commercial recording session. Widely regarded as the birth of rock and roll. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/38 "2006-04-08T00:23:26Z")
> [@trublmakr](#): > > Born: > > 1810- P.T. Barnum > 1996- Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal. > > Died: > > 2002-Ted Williams > Events: > > 1865- The world’s first maximum speed law is implemented in England. > 1934- “Bloody Thursday” Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. > 1954- Elvis has his first commercial recording session. Widely regarded as the birth of rock and roll. 🆒 Oh yeah, all this happened on various July 5ths. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/39 "2006-04-08T01:49:54Z")
**October 16** **Events:** 1978 - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II 1970 - Canada - In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act 1912 - Bulgarian pilots Radul Milkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history **Births:** 1925 - Angela Lansbury 1962 - Flea (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) **Death:** 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was beheaded at the guillotine ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730/40 "2006-04-08T02:41:01Z")
June 12 Facts 1964 - Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison. 1979 - Successful human-powered flight across the English Channel. 1987 - Reagan gives “tear down this wall” speech. Births 1915 David Rockefeller 1924 George Bush Snr 1929 - Anne Frank (she received the famous diary as a birthday present in '42) Death Gregory Peck [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-on-your-birthday/351730.md?page=3)