The Birthday Event Game

[Scarim Coral]

On April 4-

1968 ? Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
1968 ? Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
1968 ? AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.

Celebrity who share my birthday
1944 ? Craig T. Nelson
1946 ? Katsuaki Sato (Japanese martial artist)
1965 ? Robert Downey, Jr

Holy crap I share the same birthday with Iron Man! Awesome!

 

[FateOrFatality]

Okay, this is getting a bit creepy. Looking up my birthdate I just learned Yvonne Strahovski (the voice actor and face of Miranda from Mass Effect 2) was born on the same day as me in the same town (so presumably the same hospital, I suppose), thirteen years earlier.

That's it, I'm convinced we're meant to be.

 

[Redingold]

May 8th

The Second World War comes to an end in Europe, with the ratification of Germany's unconditional surrender. The Holocaust ends too.

The World Health Organisation announces the eradication of smallpox.

Coca-Cola is invented.

The Beatles final studio album is released.

 

[The Funslinger]

February 13th.

The original Black Sabbath album was released. Fuck yeah.
The final "Peanuts" comic strip written by series creator, Charles Shultz was released. Aww...
I share this birthday with Hugh Dennis. That's alright, I guess.

My dog's is November the 1st, which he shares with RHCP's Anthony Kiedis. Lucky bastard.

 

[dills2]

august 2nd
britain won a battle aginst france
there are 3 big battles on my birthday

 

[5-0]

Kurt Cobain was born on my birthday (February 20th). That's the one I know, now to look up the others.
Oh, and Jimi Hendrix played his first gig.

 

[Byere]

May 17th...
lessee...

1902 ? Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

1969 ? Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.

1990 ? The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases. (yay!)

2004 ? Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. (more yay!)

(On a personal note, assuming dates don't get pushed back again, I should be receiving my copy of Diablo 3 on my birthday this year lol)

I share my birthday with an absolute tonne of sports stars and actors, and among others:

1443 ? Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1460)
1682 ? Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
1886 ? King Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
1936 ? Dennis Hopper (American actor)
1941 ? Ben Nelson (40th Governor of Nebraska & United States Senator from Nebraska)
1955 - Bill Paxton (American actor)
1956 ? Bob Saget (American actor)
1965 - Jeremy Vine (Journalist and presenter on BBC Radio 2)
1970 - Jordan Knight (lead singer of New Kids On The Block)
1975 ? Jonti Picking (creator and owner of Weebl's Stuff)

Also, a few public holidays... most notably (for me):

International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia aka IDAHO

 

[Convoy]

May 19th!
1802- Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
1962? A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
1971? Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.

Births:
1925? Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1925? Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
1870? Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)

lol.

 

[ZehMadScientist]

March 18th

1990 ? In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

2003 ? British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.

 

[WhyBotherToTry]

June 24. First widely reported UFO sighting was made, the battle of the Somme started, first performance of Canada's national anthem and Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon crowned King and Queen of England.

 

[Popadoo]

July 5th - The first public reveal of what is now the modern day bikini, modeled by Micheline Bernardini (I actually knew this off hand, didn't have to look it up lol)

So yeah...Happy Birthday to me lol

Also fun fact, I'm working towards being a cartoonist, and share my birthday with fellow cartoonists Bill Watterson, and Ryan Sohmer.

...same birthday, and I'm doing a course on 2d animation?
WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT!

Also, the first mammal to be cloned was born on the 5th of July.

 

[necromanzer52]

24th September. Hmmm.

I share the birthday with Arthur Guinness, which is pretty groovy.

It's the date the mormon church denounced polygamy, in 1890.

And it's the day Trinidad and Tobago celebrates becoming a republic.

 

[LostCrusader]

march 6th

wikipedia gave me some interesting ones.

1836 ? Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo ? After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

Interesting, but I'm not from Texas so whatever.

1992 ? Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

Odd troll virus that only does anything on March 6th, and is named for it happening on Michelangelo's birthday.

 

[Colour Scientist]

April 30th is my birthday, and also the birthday of the Church of Satan, which was founded on that day, and the date of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun's suicide. Which is pretty cool.

I also share my birthday with Kirsten Dunst, Tom Fulp (founder of Newgrounds) and the current PM of Canada, Stephen Harper.

I was born on that day too, I think that alone makes it pretty significant. It's also the day George Washington became the US president but I'm obviously way more important.

 

[Daffy F]

22nd July, in 2011 it was the date of the massacre in Norway. I was having a bunch of my friends round for a silly party, and then we heard the news and we were all like 'feels bad man'

 

[Sassafrass]

January 14th.

The Sex Pistols broke up.
The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.

And birthdays are:

The Numa Numa guy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Brolsma]
King Valdemar I of Denmark.
And Dave Grohl.

 

[Goofguy]

July 8th, 1947 ? Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

Quite a nice little one for me. Also, Kim Jong-il succeeding his father

Don't forget, Kevin Bacon was also born on July 8, I guess we're just lucky that way.

 

[Ectoplasmicz]

September 28th.

1066 - William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.

No absolutely incredibly famous event that everybody knows has happened on my birthday. As for who I share it with?

-Hilary Duff *sigh*
-Confusius
-Moon Unit Zappa

I never realised my birthday was so...bland.

But if we are counting deaths:

-Pope John Paul I
-Miles Davis
-Edwin Hubble
-Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy
-William Edward Boeing

My deaths list appears more prestigious than my birth list.

 

[Jedoro]

November 15th: same birthday as the Xbox

 

[Colinmac93]

August 6th:

1928: Birth of Andy Warhol ^^
1942: Day of the Hiroshima bombing.
1970: Birth of M. Night Sham-, you know what, no.

Kind of a mixed bag of events, it seems.