# What ten things happened on your birthday? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ten-things-happened-on-your-birthday/469554 "2008-10-25T20:45:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ten-things-happened-on-your-birthday/469554/61 "2008-11-01T04:00:04Z")
August 30: 1617 – Saint Rose of Lima dies 1797 – Writer Mary Shelley born 1835 – City of Melbourne founded in Australia 1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run, American Civil War 1893 – Louisiana politician Huey “The Kingfish” Long born 1918 – Fanya Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Lenin 1941 – Siege of Leningrad begins, World War I 1959 – Mark “Jacko” Jackson, Australian footballer best-known in the USA for an Energizer battery commercial, and I are both born 1963 – Hotline linking USA and USSR leaders becomes operational 1967 – Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first Negro/black/African-American justice of United States Supreme Court ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ten-things-happened-on-your-birthday/469554/62 "2008-11-01T14:20:43Z")
196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031) is born. 1513 (not 1512 as often cited) - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island. 1863 - Sir Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer, born (d. 1933) 1942 - Michael York, English actor, born 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934), died (this is on my actual birthday). 1969 - Mariner 7 is launched. 1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight. 1971 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor (Mal !!) is born. :D:cool: 1972 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898) died.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ten-things-happened-on-your-birthday/469554/63 "2008-11-01T14:31:58Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > On this day in history - today’s my birthday! > > (Just random stuff that caught my eye.) > > 1984: “Baby Fae” gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days > 1970: “Doonesbury” comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers > 1964: Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show > 1954: Walt Disney’s 1st television program, “Disneyland,” premieres on ABC > 1951: Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden > 1950: Mother Teresa founded her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India > 1900: After 4 years of work, 1st section of New York subway opens > 1881: Gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona > 1861: Pony Express ends > 1825: Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened > ETA: On my exact birthday: > October 26, 1958: PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris Well shoot, **Dolores** took most of the good stuff. That’s what I get for showing up to the thread a week late! However, I’ll throw in that I share the exact same birthday with Cary Elwes. ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ten-things-happened-on-your-birthday/469554/64 "2008-11-01T15:01:02Z")
On my birthday 1985 Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome and Vienna airports. 1985 Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna airports. President Reagan blamed Libyan leader Momar Qadhafi 10 others from Dec 27 0537 The Hagia Sophia is completed. 1822 Louis Pasteur born 1850 Hawaiian Fire Department established 1932 Radio City Music Hall opens (New York NY) 1939 Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey) 1945 Allied Powers Agree to Divide Korea 1945 The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations. 1951 The Crosley car was put into use by the U.S. Postal Service in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was the first right-hand-drive car designed specifically for mail delivery 1968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth 1978 Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ten-things-happened-on-your-birthday/469554.md?page=3)