Dates in History: What Happened on the Day you were Born?

[OldStyle91]

July 4th - All Americans celebrate my birthday.
Thank you America, I didn't know I meant that much to you!
Oh dear, I told myself I wasn't going to cry...

 

[CoffeeOfDoom]

30th January 1649 - Charles I beheaded.

 

[Talal Provides]

January 24th-one of the best Roman emperors, Hadrian, was born, and one of the worst, Caligula, was killed by his own men.

 

[Talal Provides]

"July 4th, 1776: The 13 colonies in America met in Philadelphia to sign their Declaration of Independence, declaring themselves free of British rule and taxation."

Too bad I'm not American.

Don't feel bad. We may have said we were a sovereign nation on that day, but we had a few more years of war before that would actually become the case.

 

[airwolfe591]

Augutst 28
Most interesting to me:

1859 ? A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far away as Japan.

Actually happened on the day of my birth:

1990 ? The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people

Edit: Oh yeah, can't forget this
2005 ? Hurricane Katrina begins to make landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi in the afternoon, and brings the most severe damage to Slidell and New Orleans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_28

 

[jmroutson1988]

september 4th - i was born, i cant think of anything more epic than that moment in history as such and important figure was brought into the world

I have the same birthday. what year?

 

[Carnage95]

February 15:

1942 - World War II: The Fall of Singapore, "About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history."

1944 - World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins.

2005 - YouTube, the Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States. (Yay!)

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February

 

[smurf_you]

March 18th

1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar is burned at the stake.

aw now I'm sad

 

[D0WNT0WN]

22nd June 1992: Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra.

Nothing Special.

 

[thelonewolf266]

december 26th the fifth deadliest tsunami ever recorded which is a fairly major event

 

[PortalParadox]

February 27

1594 ? Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1933 ? Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I just found out today that on my birthday in 1935 that Hunter S. Thompson's parents got married.

And jeeze, you guys really like World War II...

 

[acer840]

28th of November 1893, Woman vote in a National Election for the first time in New Zealand

 

[The Weaver]

My birthday is the 4th of July...

I don?t think anything important happened on that day, seeing how the site isn?t working for me >.>...

 

[DaJoW]

The bra was invented exactly 100 hears before my birth.

 

[loc978]

Lots of interesting things for me, but the two that really stuck out to me are:

1556: The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.

and

1997: Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.

 

[JemothSkarii]

April 4th

1581: Francis Drake Knighted
1968: Martin Luther King died
1979: Heath Ledger born
1975: Operation Babylift in Vietnam War; helicopters carrying orphans crashed, 172 died

 

[A Satanic Panda]

January 20th

2001 George W. Bush is sworn in as President of the United States.
2006 High School Musical is released on the Disney Channel.

... just kill me now....