Anything interesting happen on your birthday?

[Quazimofo]

So apparently the first ever purpose-built aircraft carrier was built on my birthday. Yet my brother is the one who loves all of that sweet-ass military tech. Funny how that works.

Also, spain's shift from a dictatorship to a democracy! And a number of locally significant events or other small little things, like the indian national anthem being first sung that day, or darwin beginning his trip on the beagle.


And kind of a lot of natural disasters and.. human caused disasters? I can't think of the term.
People did a lot of awful things to other people on december 27th in the last 30 years or so.

 

[Remus]

My copy of Bioshock Infinite shipped out. Does that count?

On my birthday there is 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night, it's also my twin brother's birthday though he's 7 minutes older.

January 28, 1986 was when the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger

Fun fact: I was born minutes before it blew up.

That was the day my mother found out she was going to have me. And her birthday.

I feel old, I remember that happening we had a moment of silence at school and Regan talked ALL Saturday morning so I couldn't watch He-Man or Ghost Busters.

I was actually being taken to school by my parents. It exploded just as we were pulling into the parking lot. I didn't know what I was seeing until I saw the news when I got home.

Wikipedia April 3:
1888 ? The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs
1922 ? Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1942 - World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
1948 ? President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1968 ? Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
1974 ? The Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the April 25?28, 2011 tornado outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
2000 ? United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
Births
1942 ? Wayne Newton
1952 ? Mike Moore, American lawyer and politician - Famous for the landmark lawsuit against U.S. tobacco companies
1958 ? Alec Baldwin
1959 ? David Hyde Pierce
1961 ? Eddie Murphy

 

[IrateDonnie]

They found Kurt Cobain dead on my birthday... That's all I can think of.

 

[Slash Joel]

I was born shortly after Dr. Seuss died on September 24th, 1991.

 

[edgecult]

lucky if people even remember it's my birthday ok I wish I was actually joking but I got stuck working through my birthday -shrug- so umm no...

 

[Blow_Pop]

Well apparently when I was born this happened: Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
And in 1128: Pope Honorius II grants a Papal Sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God
And those that like Orlando Bloom, I share his birthday though he was born 8 years prior to me(I found that out either when FotR came out or when the first Pirates movie came out)
Oh and Wyatt Earp died in LA on my birthday in 1929....

Spoiler

anyone who wants linkage to things that happened on my birthday (there was something about hitler in there...i skimmed it) can go here:
http://www.historyorb.com/events/january/13
http://hereisthecity.com/2012/01/13/11-things-that-happened-this-day-in-history-13th-january/
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/january13th.html
it's where I got everything from

 

[KP Shadow]

The Friday the 13th remake came out on my 12th birthday (February 13th).

Ironically enough, everything but the midnight show was sold out when I went to see it, so I saw The Pink Panther 2, instead.

 

[Vuavu]

So, its my birthday today and it is also when you can see the perseid meteor shower best.

So anyone else have cool stuff happen on your birthday? It can be a single event or an annual thing or just something you think is cool.

Holy crap, it's my birthday today too! (It is, honest!) I'm 22 now. I've always loved the meteor shower being on my birthday. I like to joke about it being 'the heavens declaring my glory.'

Also, I enjoy being a Leo. The description is always uncannily accurate too... heh, sometimes that's good, sometimes it's bad.

Yesterday my girlfriend gave me a few presents, including a little figurine of Khal Drogo, a beautiful pouch for my pipe tobacco, and the DVD set of the last season of Spartacus. And the Castlevania pre-order coming out this month on Steam.
At the end of this week, I will be having a gathering of friends, at which we will probably /hopefully/ get a bit too drunk.

All this sounds awesome, I know... But this day, the day of my birthday, is always a touch disappointing for some reason. I can't remember ever being able to celebrate on my actual birthday. I know it doesn't matter and it's 'just another day,' but it's hard to shake the feeling that I'm doing something wrong haha wasting time or something

 

[Kyber]

After a quick look at wikipedia, i found out that.... a lot of people died apparently. Huh, well atleast it's something.

 

[Benni88]

9/11 :\

 

[SanguiniusMagnificum]

December, 23th

-Festivus, a holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld
-Night of the Radishes (Oaxaca, Mexico)

-1688 ? As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees England to Paris, France after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.

-1936 ? First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.

-1972 ? A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.

-1972 ? The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.

-1982 ? The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.

-2003 ? PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.

Uhm.... radishes are pretty cool, I guess?

 

[ToastiestZombie]

Pretty much the only thing I can think off is the death of Hitler.

 

[Darren716]

July 16th

1945- The Atomic age begins as the US successfully detonates the first plutonium based nuclear weapon.

1969- The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11 is launched from Cape Canaveral

1979- Sudam Hussein becomes leader of Iraq

1999- Jon Kenedy Jr. And his wife die when he crashes his personal plane in Martha's Vineyard

 

[Dirge Eterna]

9/22
1789 - The U.S. Congress authorized the office of Postmaster General.

1792 - The French Republic was proclaimed.

1862 - U.S. President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It stated that all slaves held within rebel states would be free as of January 1, 1863.

1903 - Italo Marchiony was granted a patent for the ice cream cone.

1914 - Three British cruisers were sunk by one German submarine in the North Sea. 1,400 British sailors were killed. This event alerted the British to the effectiveness of the submarine.

1927 - In Chicago, IL, Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long-count" fight.

1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb successfully.

1955 - Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted.

1961 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed a congressional act that established the Peace Corps.

1964 - "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." debuted on NBC-TV.

1966 - The U.S. lunar probe Surveyor 2 crashed into the moon.

1969 - Willie Mays hit his 600th career home run.

1980 - A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale war.

1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addressed the U.N. General Assembly and voiced a new hope for arms control. He also criticized the Soviet Union for arresting U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff.

1988 - Canada's government apologized for the internment of Japanese-Canadian's during World War II. They also promised compensation.

1990 - Saudi Arabia expelled most of the Yememin and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh. The Saudi accusations were unspecific.

1991 - An article in the London newspaper "The Mail" revealed that John Cairncross admitted to being the "fifth man" in the Soviet Union's British spy ring.

1992 - The U.N. General Assembly expelled Yugoslavia for its role in the war between Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1994 - The U.S. upgraded its military control in Haiti.

1998 - The U.S. and Russia signed two agreements. One was to privatize Russia's nuclear program and the other was to stop plutonium stockpiles and nuclear scientists from leaving the country.

1998 - U.S. President Clinton addressed the United Nations and told world leaders to "end all nuclear tests for all time". He then sent the long-delayed global test-ban treaty to the U.S. Senate.

 

[Ytomyth]

Happy birthday, OP. My birthday happens to fall on September 11, which probably needs no explanation.

Right there with you. Oh well, at least we get a moment's silence.

 

[somonels]

So, its my birthday today and it is also when you can see the perseid meteor shower best.

So anyone else have cool stuff happen on your birthday? It can be a single event or an annual thing or just something you think is cool.

Wow, you developed pretty fast. Doesn't this make you the smartest man who has ever lived or is this some aging condition wherein you live your life in a single day? Strange that I haven't heard anything of a meteor shower today, not that I'd be able to see anything through these clouds.

All history remembers of my birthday is that three people died. What a downer.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

21st December. Could have had the apocalypse last year, if the Mayans got their numbers right!
As for historical value, nothing really interesting happened. But I did learn I celebrate my birthday alongside this badass:

 

[popstopolus]

Woke up in Bangkok at 2 am with explosive diarrhoea, while on the bog I then puked over all of the bathroom, the spasms caused me to go from both ends at the same time, and it was my birthday

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Well next year, my birthday (March 2nd) shares the date with the 2013-2014 Oscars. So for the 18th birthday I am hosting a fancy tie oscar party. Cause why not?

I also share a birthday with Daniel Craig. *girly squee*