What's happened in history on your bday

Was thinking because a friend had a bday yesterday and the date is remembered for the VT stuff

Anyone born on 9/11?

My bday (feb 28) had the waco, tx stuff with Koresh

4/17/2008 11:05:21 AM

Oklahoma City bombing

4/17/2008 11:09:55 AM

I thought you said Tww was blocked at work for you

and I'm probably gonna order that stuff this weekend so I'll get your code before then

4/17/2008 11:10:25 AM

Jonathan Brandis committed suicide on my birthday back in 2003

4/17/2008 11:11:03 AM

damn it has already been a year for the vt stuff

4/17/2008 11:11:12 AM

Quote :

"April 7th in History 0: Jesus crucified (scholar's estimates) or not (some scholars disagree) 1652: Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa White Dutch, that is 1827: Matches go on sale for the first time, produced by John Walker in Stockton, England 1906: Italian volcano 'Versuvius' erupts 1933: Prohibition ends as Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 2 Amendment Everyone celebrates with a toast 1939: Italy invades Albania 1948: World Health Organisation (WHO) established 1963: Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic Balkan crisis is considered settled once and for all "

pretty dull day.

Quote :

"1770: William Wordsworth, English Poet 1915: Billy Holiday, American jazz singer 1928: James Garner, American actor 1939: Francis Ford Coppola, American director"

4/17/2008 11:12:11 AM

My birthday is January 1st

Nothing bad EVER happens on new year's day

4/17/2008 11:14:00 AM

1998 - Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500.

1964 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

1461 - the Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor; after setting fire to the eastern and western gates of the Forbidden City (which were doused by pouring rains during the day-long uprising), Cao Qin found himself hemmed in on all sides by imperial forces, lost three of his own brothers in the fight, and instead of facing execution he fled to his house and committed suicide by jumping down a well located within the walled compound of his urban Beijing home.

322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great.

4/17/2008 11:16:15 AM

Robert Kennedy was shot
Ronald Reagen died
Conway twitty died

4/17/2008 11:17:48 AM

# 1966 - Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno rivers flood; considering also the contemporary flood of Po River in northern Italy, 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and numerous Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.

# 1970 - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
November 4th

# 1979 - Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian people, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).

# 1993 - A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be arson.

# 1993 - A China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.

# 1995 - Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.

# 2004 - 12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d'Ivoire civil war.

nothing exciting

4/17/2008 11:19:38 AM

a guy in my suite turned 21 on 9/11

and his parents were in nyc at the time

4/17/2008 11:24:10 AM

My "birthday week" tends to have had bad things...Lincoln shot, Titanic sank, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma City, Columbine, etc.

But my birthday (Friday) seems as yet unscathed by anything major.

4/17/2008 11:25:34 AM

January 28th, 1986 (my 1st bday) - NASA Shuttle Challenger explodes seconds after takeoff, killing all crew members

4/17/2008 11:26:32 AM

King Hussein of Jordan died on my birthday

4/17/2008 11:26:34 AM

Sept 23:
1941 - First gas murder experiments conducted at Auschwitz
1971 - Eric Montross was born
1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos implements martial law in the Philippines
1988 - Jose Canseco becomes the first member of the 40/40 club

4/17/2008 11:28:13 AM

1865 - In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1895 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1955 - In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It was the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1977 - Star Wars is released. It rapidly becomes a cult classic and is the start of a six-movie franchise.
1979 - American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1985 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1995 - The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
2002 - China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
2002 - A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.


and yes, star wars is a tragedy

4/17/2008 11:29:08 AM

Quote :

"But my birthday (Friday) seems as yet unscathed by anything major."

April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 and destroys 75% of city

4/17/2008 11:29:57 AM

30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her lover, Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
1480 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
1944 - Waffen SS troops massacre more than 500 civil people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1952 - The Night of the Murdered Poets - Thirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow.
1985 - Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Mount Ogura in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520. It is the worst single-plane air disaster.
2000 - The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
2005 - An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people.

on the plus side:

1908 - First Model T Ford built.
1981 - The IBM Personal Computer is released. (<-- the day i was born)

4/17/2008 11:30:20 AM

Apr. 4th

President William Henry Harrison died after 30 days in office

MLK was assassinated

4/17/2008 11:30:53 AM

am i winning with 10,000 deaths?

woot!

4/17/2008 11:31:32 AM

Quote :

"1971 - Eric Montross was born"

lolz

4/17/2008 11:34:36 AM

hahaha

4/17/2008 11:37:03 AM

Quote :

"1967 - Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)"

i didnt know she died

4/17/2008 11:42:33 AM

June 1st birthday here.

1939
99 sailors are lost with the sinking of British submarine HMS Thetis.

1929
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in south eastern Italy, overlooking the Bay of Naples. Lava from the earliest recorded eruption, 79AD, buried several Roman cities including Pompeii.

1915
World War I: the first German Zeppelin airship bombing raid on London.

4/17/2008 11:44:55 AM

My birthday is Judgement Day. beat that.



[Edited on April 17, 2008 at 11:49 AM. Reason : ads]

4/17/2008 11:45:17 AM

^^ June 1st here too

4/17/2008 11:46:13 AM

March 8:
1765 - The British House of Lords passes the Stamp Act to tax the American colonies.

1782 - Gnadenhütten massacre: Some 90 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity had their skulls crushed with mallets by Pennsylvanian militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.

1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States dies

1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.

1924 - The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah

1930 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States dies

1963 - The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.

1965 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam

1985 - A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in a car-bombing in Beirut kills 85 people and injures 175.

1999-Joe DiMaggio died

However:
1927 - Dick Hyman was born.
1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.

4/17/2008 11:48:04 AM

On March 10th Chuck Norris escaped the womb and struck germany with a swift roundhouse kick

millions were injured

4/17/2008 12:03:51 PM

November 12, 2001 American Airlines flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, New York, killing 265, vertical stabilizer failure
November 12, 1999 Earthquake kills 700 in Duzce, Turkey
November 12, 1998 New York Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak
November 12, 1997 Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
November 12, 1997 Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award
November 12, 1996 Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
November 12, 1995 25th New York City Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06
November 12, 1995 26th New York City Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
November 12, 1995 Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe
November 12, 1995 Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
November 12, 1995 New York MTA raises subway and bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
November 12, 1995 STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
November 12, 1992 New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
November 12, 1991 "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born
November 12, 1991 Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
November 12, 1991 Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die
November 12, 1989 "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 1018 performances
November 12, 1989 Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
November 12, 1989 George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City
November 12, 1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
November 12, 1988 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
November 12, 1987 "Teddy and Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 77 performances
November 12, 1987 Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine
November 12, 1987 Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World
November 12, 1986 France performs nuclear test
November 12, 1986 Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
November 12, 1985 R. Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match vs. Australia at Brisbane
November 12, 1985 STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
November 12, 1985 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
November 12, 1984 Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
November 12, 1984 Space shuttle astronauts retreive a satellite - 1st space salvage
November 12, 1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
November 12, 1983 New Jersey Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
November 12, 1982 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
November 12, 1982 U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader
November 12, 1982 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket vs. India, goes to 215
November 12, 1981 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V
November 12, 1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
November 12, 1981 Bill C. Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in New York City
November 12, 1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's
November 12, 1981 Great Britain performs nuclear test
November 12, 1981 Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
November 12, 1980 Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
November 12, 1980 U.S. space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
November 12, 1979 President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
November 12, 1979 Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
November 12, 1979 U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets
November 12, 1978 "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 33 performances
November 12, 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
November 12, 1977 Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans
November 12, 1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
November 12, 1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
November 12, 1975 New York Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
November 12, 1975 Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired after 36 years
November 12, 1974 South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies
November 12, 1973 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 14th String Quartet premieres
November 12, 1970 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
November 12, 1970 Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
November 12, 1970 Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
November 12, 1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
November 12, 1969 Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP
November 12, 1969 U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
November 12, 1969 WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
November 12, 1968 KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
November 12, 1968 Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
November 12, 1967 Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
November 12, 1967 Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
November 12, 1966 Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
November 12, 1966 Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
November 12, 1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
November 12, 1965 Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
November 12, 1965 General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka

4/17/2008 12:09:15 PM

November 12, 1965 Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
November 12, 1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
November 12, 1964 Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
November 12, 1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
November 12, 1963 Train crash in Japan, kills 164
November 12, 1960 Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails
November 12, 1959 White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
November 12, 1958 Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
November 12, 1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
November 12, 1955 1st West German officers sworn in
November 12, 1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" and "Back to the Future II"
November 12, 1955 E Arcaro, E Sande and G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
November 12, 1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, closed
November 12, 1953 David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
November 12, 1953 U.S. district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
November 12, 1952 Philadelphia A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
November 12, 1951 "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 289 performances
November 12, 1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala
November 12, 1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL New York Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
November 12, 1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
November 12, 1947 KPO-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
November 12, 1947 Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
November 12, 1946 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago)
November 12, 1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
November 12, 1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
November 12, 1944 RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway
November 12, 1943 Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
November 12, 1942 In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
November 12, 1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
November 12, 1941 WOV-AM and WNEW-AM in New York City swaps call letters
November 12, 1940 Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
November 12, 1939 Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
November 12, 1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
November 12, 1936 Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
November 12, 1936 Oakland Bay Bridge opens
November 12, 1936 St. Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt
November 12, 1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
November 12, 1933 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Brooklyn Dodgers 32-0
November 12, 1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken
November 12, 1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
November 12, 1932 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
November 12, 1931 Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chicago Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
November 12, 1931 Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London
November 12, 1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110
November 12, 1927 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey opens
November 12, 1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
November 12, 1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
November 12, 1925 U.S. and Italy sign peace accord about war debts
November 12, 1924 Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
November 12, 1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power
November 12, 1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
November 12, 1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
November 12, 1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
November 12, 1918 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
November 12, 1915 Britain annexes Gilbert and Ellice archipelago
November 12, 1915 Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
November 12, 1914 Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
November 12, 1912 Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica
November 12, 1910 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
November 12, 1906 C W Gregory (NSW vs. Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
November 12, 1900 World's Fair in Paris opens, 50 million visitors
November 12, 1899 British troops reach Durban Natal
November 12, 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
November 12, 1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
November 12, 1885 Montreal and Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
November 12, 1873 Bay District Race Track opens
November 12, 1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
November 12, 1823 Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
November 12, 1813 Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth
November 12, 1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
November 12, 1727 France and Bavaria renew secret treaty
November 12, 1682 Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy
November 12, 1673 Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
November 12, 1614 Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
November 12, 1591 Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza
November 12, 954 Lotharius becomes king of France
November 12, 607 Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
November 12, 295 Origin of Era of Ascension

4/17/2008 12:09:37 PM

Not all of these were tragedies, but I thought some were a little odd

2005 - A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
January 10, 1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
January 10, 1980 Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 mins and a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in NHL

January 10, 1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru
January 10, 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages and kill 3,500

January 10, 1945 No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame

4/17/2008 12:10:05 PM

not necessarily only tragedies, but general events.

July 7

1994: North Yemeni forces capture Aden to bring an end to the two-month civil war.
1990: American tennis player Martina Navratilova wins her record 9th women's singles title at Wimbledon.
1990: In football, England goalkeeper Peter Shilton plays the last of his 125 games for his country in the World Cup third-place play-off against Italy in Bari.
1985: German tennis player Boris Becker, an unseeded 17 year old, becomes the youngest player to win the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.
1985: Robert Mugabe becomes the first President of the newly named Zimbabwe
1982: In London, an intruder in Buckingham Palace - Micheal Fagan - breaks into the bedroom of Queen Elizabeth II and asks her for a cigarette while sitting on the end of her bed. The incident reveals a serious flaw in Palace security.
1981: In Britain, the Church of England decides that divorcees are allowed to re-marry in a church ceremony.
1974: In football's World Cup final, West Germany beat Holland 2-1.
1967: England's round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1967: British group The Beatles release All You Need Is Love which was recorded during the first live European television link-up.
1955: In Britain, the first episode of the television police drama Dixon of Dock Green starring actor Jack Warner as London policeman George Dixon. The programme runs for 367 episodes during the next 21 years.
1941: United States occupies Iceland.
1937: In Britain, the Peel Report on the future of Palestine, recommends the setting up of separate Arab and Jewish states.
1929: In Italy, the Vatican in the centre of Rome becomes a sovereign state.
1927: Christopher Stone becomes first Britain's first radio disc jockey.
1898: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA.
1890: In America, the first execution by electric chair is carried out in New York.
1883: The puppet character, Pinocchio, first appears in print. Carlo Lorenzini, under his pen name of Collodi, writes the cautionary children's story but is paid only 12 weeks' rent for the rights to what is to become one of the world's most popular children's classics.
1814: The world's first authentic historical novel, 'Waverley' by Sir Walter Scott, is published.

4/17/2008 12:21:25 PM

the worst tragedy of them all occured on my birthday:

February 13, 1795 1st state university in U.S. opens, University of North Carolina

4/17/2008 12:24:52 PM

And here's how I win the thread:

Quote :

"August 2, 1934 Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany "

4/17/2008 12:27:12 PM

the watts riots

4/17/2008 12:28:28 PM

the wat???!?s riots?

4/17/2008 12:28:57 PM

My birthday is 9/5. The only thing i found was that the events that the movie Munich was based on happened on 9/5/72

i've got two close friends with b-days on 9/11. sucks for them.


ok found more.

other 9/5 tragedies:

1698 - In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards.
1938 - Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
1969 - My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
2005 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.

4/17/2008 12:29:41 PM

^^^^^[/thread]

1963-President Kennedy assassinated.

[Edited on April 17, 2008 at 12:32 PM. Reason : -]

4/17/2008 12:32:20 PM

pearl harbor

4/17/2008 12:34:35 PM

Yeah, some of you aren't listing your bdays. It's not like it's hard to get off the internets!

and JFK means you were born Nov. 22

4/17/2008 12:36:25 PM

Few significant things happened on August 4th:

1944: Anne Frank captured
On August 4, 1944, the Nazi Gestapo captures Anne Frank and her family, who are hiding in Holland.
1984
South African-born bare-foot athlete Zola Budd, controversially allowed to run for Great Britain, accidentally trips American medal hope Mary Decker in the 3,000 metres final during the Los Angeles Olympics - causing one of the most dramatic upsets in the history of the Games.
1981
Three British mountaineers are killed climbing the East Face of the Matterhorn
1978
In Britain, politician Jeremy Thorpe, former leader of the Liberal Party, is charged with conspiracy to murder a male model, Norman Scott. Thorpe is later cleared.
1975
A streaker interupts the Test match between England and Australia at Lords Cricket Ground in London
1972
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin expels Ugandan-Asians from the country.
1966
During an American radio programme, John Lennon - founder-member of the British group The Beatles claims his group is probably currently more popular than Jesus Christ. His comment leads to Beatle records being banned from many American states.
1940
World War II: Italy invades Kenya, the Sudan and British Somaliland.
1917
Captain Noel Chavasse, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, only the second man to be awarded the additional bar to the Victorian Cross for bravery, dies from wounds.
1914
World War I: Britain declares war on Germany for violating the Treaty of London. US President Woodrow Wilson proclaims America to be neutral.
1870
Founding of the British Red Cross Society by Lord Wantage.
1265
Battle of Evesham: Defeat of Baron Simon de Montfort by the Royalist forces of the future King Edward I.

4/17/2008 12:38:08 PM

I was born.

4/17/2008 12:54:11 PM

Tww isn't blocked, I just don't dare delve into it. If I post during the day it's from my Blackberry...as I am doing now

4/17/2008 12:56:17 PM

J- J- J- J- January 9th. (m m m m m monster killll)

1947 - Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.

4/17/2008 12:56:38 PM

thats cool

can you see this on your blackberry?

4/17/2008 12:57:26 PM

September 7th:
70 - A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.

1860 - Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.

1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered-heavier-than-air-craft.

1929 - Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives were lost.

1940 - World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.

1943 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.

1996 - American rapper Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive by.

1999 - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.

2004 - Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hitting Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.

4/17/2008 1:02:30 PM

i couldn't really find anything interesting on my bday (july 3) i got bored of reading after awhile...it was all about the us open golf, wimbeldon, baseball. and apparently its lou gehrig's day. oh and tom cruise was born...that is the biggest tragedy of all i guess.

4/17/2008 1:08:19 PM

December 17th:

* 546 - Gothic War (535–552): The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
* 920 - Romanos I is crowned as co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.
* 942 - Assassination of William I of Normandy.
# 1718 - Great Britain declares war on Spain.
# 1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
# 1939 - World War II: Battle of the River Plate - The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
# 1941 - World War II: Beginning of the Siege of Sebastopol.
# 1941 - World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
# 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge - Malmedy massacre - American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.

but, on the good side:
# 1989 - The longest-running American sitcom The Simpsons had its debut.

4/17/2008 1:16:12 PM

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"May 29, 1979 Woody Harrelson's father is arrested for murder Judge John Wood, known as "Maximum John," is assassinated outside his San Antonio, Texas, home as he bent down to look at a flat tire on his car. Actor Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, was charged with the murder after evidence revealed that drug kingpin Jimmy Chagra, whose case was about to come up before "Maximum John," had paid him $250,000. Chagra, worried about the sentence that was soon to be imposed by Judge Wood, apparently conspired with his wife and brother to hire Harrelson to carry out the murder. Shattered bullet fragments found at the scene were traced to a .240 Wetherby Mark V rifle--the type recently purchased by Harrelson's wife, Jo Ann. Harrelson, who had a prior conviction for murder in 1968, was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences in prison. Jo Ann, convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice and perjufy, was later paroled.Woody Harrelson funded his father's appeals, enlisting the aid of famed attorney Alan Dershowitz. Charles Harrelson died on March 15, 2007, at age 69 of a heart attack in his cell at Colorado's Supermax federal prison."

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"May 29, 1914 Ships crash in heavy fog Heavy fog causes a collision of boats on the St. Lawrence River in Canada that kills 1,073 people on this day in 1914. Caused by a horrible series of blunders, this was one of the worst maritime disasters in history. The Empress of Ireland left Quebec on May 28 with 1,057 passengers and 420 crew members on board. At 2:00 a.m. the following morning, the Empress was near Father Point on the St. Lawrence River when thick fog rolled in. A Norwegian coal freighter, the Storstad, was approaching as visibility was reduced to nearly nothing. Although each ship was aware of the other, the Storstad failed to follow standard procedures for fog conditions, which call for stopping when visibility is drastically reduced. The Storstad only slowed, while the Empress came to a complete stop. The Storstad hit the Empress mid-ship and sliced through its hull. Captain Thomas Anderson of the Storstad made matters even worse by failing to reverse engines after the crash. He proceeded directly ahead, crushing many people on board and turning the Empress over onto its side. Anderson later told investigators he had feared reversing would have allowed water to rush into the hole. This was a colossal error. The Empress sank in just 14 minutes, taking the great majority of its passengers with it. Only 217 passengers and 248 crew members survived the collision. The subsequent investigation placed most of the blame on Captain Anderson, but found the Empress had also ignored some critical precautions that would have saved many lives. Because of the risk of collision, the Empress should have sealed its watertight doors, which would have minimized damage from a crash; it did not."

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"May 29, 1942 Jews in Paris are forced to sew a yellow star on their coats On this day in 1942, on the advice of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler orders all Jews in occupied Paris to wear an identifying yellow star on the left side of their coats. Joseph Goebbels had made the persecution, and ultimately the extermination, of Jews a personal priority from the earliest days of the war, often recording in his diary such statements as: "They are no longer people but beasts," and "[T]he Jews ... are now being evacuated eastward. The procedure is pretty barbaric and is not to be described here more definitely. Not much will remain of the Jews." But Goebbels was not the first to suggest this particular form of isolation. "The yellow star may make some Catholics shudder," wrote a French newspaper at the time. "It renews the most strictly Catholic tradition." Intermittently, throughout the history of the papal states, that territory in central Italy controlled by the pope, Jews were often confined to ghettoes and forced to wear either yellow hats or yellow stars."

4/17/2008 1:26:32 PM

I'm not going to bother looking up other stuff, but Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated on my birthday.

[Edited on April 17, 2008 at 1:30 PM. Reason : ]

4/17/2008 1:30:03 PM