[texbrease]

OK peeps, what events happened on the anniversary of your birth?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._anniversaries

Post both the best and the worst - here's mine:

Best - the Amistad slavery ruled illegal (1841), and U2 releases their best album 'Joshua Tree' (1987)

Worst - firebombing of Tokyo (1945)

[23InetrySypekek]

1921 - The film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres (great flick!)

1952 - The film The African Queen opens at the Capitol Theatre in New York City .

2005 - Robot Chicken premieres on Adult Swim.

2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author dies.

Kurt Cobain was born as well, but that guy's an ass.

[Txaizdxx]

Worst

• 1835 - First signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at Goliad, Texas.
• 1917 - Cheka, first Soviet secret police, founded.
• 1981 - The first ever on-stage performance of the award-winning Broadway musical Dreamgirls at Imperial Theatre on Broadway.
• 1984 - The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines.
• 1989 - United States invasion of Panama: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega.
• 1996 - NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.

Best

• 69 - Vespasian, a former general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of emperor.
• 1803 - Louisiana Purchase completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
• 1860 - South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States.
• 1915 - World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
• 1991 - A Missouri court passes the death sentence on Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
• 1999 - Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.
• 2002 - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
• 2005 - US District Court Judge John E. Jones III ruled against mandating teaching "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

[yxn2dC07]

February 16
1957: Levar Burton born.
1958: Ice-T born.
1959: Castro becomes Cuban Premier.
1972: Wilt Chamberlain scores 30,000th point.
1985: Founding of Hezzbollah.
1988: Jean_Carignan died (oh, lord, I killed a French-Canadian fiddler!! ).

[fissasste]

Good:
529 BC - the international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder.

1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.

1935 - Takahata Isao, Japanese animated film director born

1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

Bad (a small selection!)
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda born

1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or Black Tuesday, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.

1998 - Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.

I share a birthday with Goebbels?!

[BipiewExifese]

Hmmmm....Apparently, some really bad crap happened on M'birfday...
D'OH!

1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1939 - World War II: First attack on British territory by German Luftwaffe.
1940 - Warsaw Ghetto established.
1964 - People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba began.
1991- Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
1922 - The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.

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Some Good though...

1781 - George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia.

Sweeeeet.

[malishka1025]

1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day
1966 - The Church of Satan is founded
1993 - The World Wide Web was born at CERN.

and a lot of boring suff.

[JAMES PIETERSE]

Worst 1903 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600.

Best 2006 - Saddam Hussein executed

[corriffuniee]

1606 - The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
1931 - The strongest wind in the world measured at 231 mph was recorded on the summit of Mount Washington.
1937 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England.
1954 - Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City. Initially unsuccessful, the recording would help launch the rock and roll revolution a year later.
1955 - The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. best.
1961 - Human spaceflight: Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
1968 - Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah. worst
1948 - Birth of Jeremy Beadle, British television presenter. both!

[Fekliopas]

Nothing very significative on my birthday. I'm jealous.

[abossakon]

Best: 1979 - Pink Floyd releases 'The Wall' (same year too )
Worst: 2006 - Microsoft releases 'Vista'

[Siffidiolla]

1999 - Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.

Oops...wrong list. Macau was a hell of a lot more fun before the PRC got it back.

[blenIgnigeSef]

Nothing very significative on my birthday.

Not true...you share a birthday with (drum roll please)

1951 - Steven Seagal, American actor

[husartrof]

Best:

Slavery banned
Hannibal defeats Rome
First version of Perl released

Worst:

First perfomance of the Nutcracker
Joseph Stalin born
Steven Spielberg born
Christina Aguilara born
Brad Pitt born

[Pjayjukr]

Not true...you share a birthday with (drum roll please)

1951 - Steven Seagal, American actor

Ha ha! You suck.

[unlomarma]

On the anniversary of my birth: Julius Caesar, Andrew Jackson, blah, blah. There's one thing that happens on my birthday that eclipses all. Hounen Matsuri. How appropriate.

[VovTortki]

There is a lot of sucky stuff that happened on my birthday:

1943 - World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre was announced in Germany, driving a wedge between the Western Allies, the Polish government-in-exile in London, and the Soviet Union.

1945 - German troops massacre more than 1000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany. The atrocity is discovered two days later by American forces.

1975 - An attack by unidentified gunmen on a church in Ain El Remmeneh followed by an attack on a bus that killed 17 Palestinian civilians, Lebanon marks the beginning of a 15 year civil war.

However, it's not all bad:

1977 - Tony Cook, Local heart-throb and amature kendoka, was born.

[awagsFare]

Apparently, also on my birthday:

1970 - Rebecca Cummings, American Porn Actress, born on this date.


*sigh* She's not even hot.

[CoiI8XIj]

I think someone needs to start a 'Celeb Birthdays' thread...

[asivisepo]

Some good, some bad on my birthday. Here are the highlights:

1568 - The entire population of the Netherlands - three million people - was sentenced to death by the Roman Catholic Church for heresy. (Just think – no more Heineken or Grolsch!)
1857 - The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, DC, becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf. (Hope you heard that)
1899 - President Félix Faure of France dies in office. (probably shagging his secretary at the time)
1918 - The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state. (didn’t last long did it!)
1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. (bet he wishes he hadn’t and released the curse)
1934 - Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund (they had a civil war!!!!!)
1936 - Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain. (and that caused a civil war)
1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon. (and received the eternal thanks of many nylon loving men – you know who you are!)
1940 - World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed. (well, they shouldn’t have parked it in Norwegian waters)
1945 - World War II: American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines. (they should never have left in the first place)
1945 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula. (see above)
1947 - Canadians granted Canadian citizenship after 80 years of being British subjects. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King become the first Canadian citizen. (did he become the first King of Canada?)
1957 - The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television closedown between 6.00pm and 7.00pm was abolished in the United Kingdom (I was born then!)
1985 - The founding of Hezbollah. (Damn! Hate to share my birthday with those guys)
1987 - The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem. (just goes to show there is justice in the world)
2006 - The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. (no more films or TV series then?)
2007 - The U.S. House of Representatives passes resolution opposing President George W. Bush's proposed troop surge, regarding the Iraq conflict. (so they do actually do things then!)