On this day in history...

[KillerMuffin]

Go here, plug in your birthday, find out what happened! (If you didn't guess, this is a link)

Then come back and tell us.

I was born September 18.

John Diefenbaker was born with me. Is this a good thing? Well? *waiting patiently to hear from the Canucks*

Jimi Hendrix died exactly a year before I was born.

The New York Times put out its first issue in 1851.

I was born during National Honey Month in the US? That explains my sweet dispostion.

And it's also Day of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. And that would be who?

In 1996 Roger Clemens matched his own record for strikeouts in a single game, getting 20 of the suckers in a row for the Boston Red Sox. What is a sox?

 

[Bonnie Wee Lassie]

I was born June 26th and on this day......

Pearl S. Buck, novelist (1892)was born also.

1858: China and Britain sign the Treaty of Tianjin, bringing a temporary end to the Second Opium War.

1870: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the world's first oceanside boardwalk is completed.

1894: Railroad workers led by Eugene V. Debs begin a national strike

1925: The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin's epic comedy set in Alaska, opens.

1963: President John F. Kennedy is received enthusiastically by the residents of West Berlin.

And it is also... International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (United Nations)

And yes from a canadian it is a good thing!

 

[scylis]

September 22

1862
Abraham Lincoln gives his preliminary to the Emancipation Proclaimation, which warns that on January 1, 1863, all slaves in states still in rebellion will be freed (once the state is recaptured, that is)
1969
Willie Mayes of the San Fransisco Giants hits his record setting 600th home run

famous people who share my b-day
Tommy Lasorda
Chen Ning Yang, a famous physicist (Chen's a she, if i remember correctly)

 

[Earthmuffin]

Aug 1st. highlights

Switzerland was formed from a confederation (1291)
Slavery was abolished in the British Empire (1834)
MTV launched with "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1981)

Jerry Garcia & I share a birthday.

 

[Mustang Sally]

Ok, sure, I'm bored. On November 5th...

1370: Kazimierz III the Great, king of Poland (1333-1370) and last of the Piast dynasty, dies at age 60.

1605: English conspirator Guy Fawkes is arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament. (That's pretty cool. They named the damn holiday after the bad guy!)

1895: American inventor George B. Selden patents the gasoline-powered automobile.

1912: Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th president of the United States.

1940: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a third term in office.

Also the birthdate of Ida Tarbell, American writer (1857); Will Durant, American historian (1885); Vivien Leigh, Indian-born English actor (1913) and Bill Walton, American basketball player (1952).

 

[Naked Hunny]

1797: The first U.S. patent for a washing machine was granted to Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire

1834: For the first time in history, the U.S. Senate votes to censure a president, declaring that Andrew Jackson inappropriately removed federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1930: The ancient Turkish city of Constantinople changes its name to Istanbul

1941: British writer Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning

1969: In London, Ringo Starr announces that there will be no more public appearances by the Beatles

1979: A nuclear disaster at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania increases public concerns about the safety of nuclear power.


Born on this Day
George I, king of Great Britain (1660)

Aristide Briande, French statesman (1862)

Paul Whiteman, bandleader (1891)

Sir Dirk Bogarde, actor and writer (1921)


Evacuation day (libya)


Feast of St. John Capistran (Christian)


Hari Raya Haji (Malaysia)


Teacher's Day (Czech Republic)


Constitution Day (Serbia

 

[Naked Hunny]

march 28

damn double post

[Edited by Naked Hunny on 01-16-2001 at 10:42 PM]

 

[Xander]

June 6th

1703: Work begins on the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, meant by Tsar Peter I (the Great) to be a “window on Europe."

1884: The group of Republican Party dissidents known as the Mugwumps leaves the party convention, refusing to support its nominee for president, James G. Blaine.

1925: Under Walter P. Chrysler, a former General Motors executive, the Maxwell Motor Corporation becomes the Chrysler Corporation.

1944: In the largest seaborne invasion in history, known as D-Day, over 150,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied northern France.

1978: California voters overwhelmingly approve Proposition 13, which cuts local property taxes by more than two-thirds, sending many local governments into financial crisis.

1984: The Indian army attacks the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, killing hundreds of Sikh separatists headquartered there. Four months later, outraged Sikhs assassinate Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

 

[ShyGuy68]

On my b-day, december 21st.

1620: The first group of colonists disembark from the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock.

1898: Polish-born French chemist Marie Curie and her husband, physicist and Nobel laureate Pierre Curie, discover radium.

1913: The New York World newspaper prints the first modern crossword puzzle in the United States.

1937: The animated motion picture Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiers.

1956: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

1968: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, Jr., and William Anders aboard.


Born on this Day

Benjamin Disraeli, British writer and prime minister (1804)

Josef Stalin, Soviet leader (1879)

Phil Donahue, American television talk-show host (1935)

Jane Fonda, American motion-picture actor (1937)

Chris Evert, American tennis player (1954)

 

[jcgirl]

January 4th

1885: The first successful appendectomy is performed in Davenport, Iowa.

1896: Utah is admitted into the United States as the 45th state.

1932: The Indian government declares the Indian National Congress illegal and arrests nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi.

1948: The British colony of Burma becomes an independent sovereign nation, ending more than six decades of British rule.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), English physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher born on this day

 

[Handy-Andy]

August 27th ....

1660: After the restoration of King Charles II of England, the books of poet and pamphleteer John Milton are burned in London for his attacks on the king during the English Revolution.

1859: In Titusville Pennsylvania, Edwin Drake drill's the first successful oil well in the United States.

1963: Having renounced his U.S. citizenship earlier that year, African American scholar and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois dies in Ghana at the age of 95.

1976: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announce that they have assembled a synthetic gene and implanted it into a living cell of the bacterium E.
coli.

1982: Oakland A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 119th base of the season, breaking Lou Brock's single-season record for major league baseball .

Born on this Day

G. W. F. Hegel, philosopher (1770)

Theodore Dreiser, novelist (1871)

Man Ray, photographer and painter (1890)

Lyndon Baines Johnson, U.S. president (1908)

Mother Teresa, Catholic missionary (1910)

Jeanette Winterson, novelist (1959)

Me (1968)


Holidays and Celebrations -

Independence Day (Moldova)

National Heroes Day (Philippines)

Anniversary of Women's Revolt (Guinea)

Petroleum Day (Texas)

Lyndon B. Johnson's Birthday (Texas)

Day of Saint Monica

[Edited by Handy-Andy on 01-17-2001 at 03:18 AM]

 

[Juspar Emvan]

23rd January

Gotta get in quick before other members post the same day . .

1845 - some bright spark figured out a wierd way of fixing the date of US presidential ellections

1907 - an actual native of North America got to serve on the United States Senate

1960 - a Swiss guy and a navy dude from the states went down on mother nature real good

1968 - some guys from North Korea arrested some guys from America, US govt official stance 'Pissed Off'

1973 - Nixon tells everyone that the terms for a cease fire in Vietnam have been met

1989 - Salvidor (I can draw pictures that made you think you're still on that acid trip) Dali dies

 

[brazenblaze]

June 25

1876: A force of Sioux and Northern Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull wipes out about 260 U.S. calvary led by General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

1906: On the roof of New York City's old Madison Square Garden, a building he designed, leading American architect Stanford White is shot and killed by the jealous husband of beautiful showgirlEvelyn Nesbit.

1944: The final strip of George Herriman's innovative Krazy Kat comic strip appears, two months after Herriman's death.

1950: The Korean War begins with the crossing of the 38th parallel into South Korea by North Korean troops.

1973: Former White House counsel John Dean begins his televised testimony before the Senate Watergate committee. His account, corroborated by secret White House tapes, will lead to President Nixon's resignation.

1975: After 470 years of rule by Portugal, the former colony of Portuguese East Africa gains its independence as the nation of Mozambique

 

[CRaZy]

OK. The only vaguely interesting thing that happened on my birthday was that in 1950 General Douglas Macarthur invaded North Korea. Having stood on that eerie no man's land at the 38th parallel in the 1980's with guns to the front of me and guns to the back of me, I can only wonder what he hoped to achieve.

At that time in the 1980's, North Korea appeared to be relatively comfortable (in the cities at least) if spartan and rigid by our standards. South Korea had not become the economic tiger it is today. In fact, there was so much political unrest that there was a 10 o'clock curfew. Tanks just ran people over in the streets. Men would wait till the last minute before the tanks rolled because they knew prostitutes would go home with them for free. At that time I felt safer in North Korea. Of course years of sanctions and time spent in the political wilderness will decimate any country's economy as we have seen with the famine in North Korea in recent years.

The move towards a one Korea is a good thing, however, one has to wonder (with hindsight which is always a wonderful thing and in no way denigrates the efforts of those who loyally fought at the time) at the audacity of powerful nations who chose fascism (South Korea) over Communism (North) and subsequently left two generations of Koreans divided.

 

[WriterDom]

July 19

1993: In a compromise with military leaders, President Bill Clinton announces the "don’t ask, don't smell" policy, which allows homosexuals to serve in the U.S. military if they do not make their sexuality overt.