What happened on your Birthday?

[A_Parked_Car]

-Julius Caesar defeated Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus.
-Emperor Valens and a large Roman army was crushed by the Visigoths.
-The Japanese city of Nagasaki was nuked by the Americans.
-The Soviet Union entered the war against Japan by invading Japanese-held Manchuria. This happens to be another major factor (beside the nukes) that led the Japanese to surrender. It also is one of, if not THE most one-sided military engagement in human history.

That is all that really mattered from what I can see. Other than that lots of people were born and died.

 

[Nietz]

According to Wikipedia, this has happened on my birthday in this millenium:

May 13th
-2000 ? In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately ?450 million in damage.
-2005 ? The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
-2005 ? The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
-2006 ? 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
-2008 ? The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
-2011 ? In the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan, two bombs explode, resulting in 98 deaths 140 wounded.

 

[BakedAlaskan]

In 1307, William tell shot an arrow through an apple on his son's head...
In 1918, Latvia declares independence from Russia...
It was decided that Mickey Mouse's birthday in 1928 is the same as mine...
In 1991, it was the day Terry Waite was kidnapped in the Lebanon...
In 1993, NAFTA was ratified as a global trading bloc...
In 2011, Batman: Arkham City was released in Europe...

November 18th. Seemingly somewhat legendary. There were also numerous earthquakes, floods and tsunamis!

 

[Terminate421]

Well this year a very very very shitty and creepy looking movie comes out.....

1969 Monty Pythons Flying circus first premiered
1947 The first televised presidential address happened
1962 The beatles released their first album
1989 The Dalai lama won nobel peace prize
2011 Steve Jobs died

That is 4 positives and 2 negatives. October 5th.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Mmm, can't pick one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_17


This guy was born..

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

 

[Nerexor]

On my birthday, which is June 25th, the following happened:

The Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor in 1543, it's one of the most important documents of the Lutheran faith.

1947: The Diary of Anne Frank is published.

1950: The Korean War begins

1993: Kim Campbell becomes the first female Prime Minister in Canada

2009: Michael Jackson dies, all his records hit platinum, and the cult of "Dead musicians immediately become cultural saints regardless of what they actually did" begins.

 

[Bvenged]

29th January [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_29]

These are just some of the most notable from the Wikipedia page:

1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross] - a medal awarded that is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories.

1886 ? Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

1916 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.

1944 - Koniuchy Massacre. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koniuchy_massacre]

1967 ? The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.

1991 ? Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khafji], the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.

1996 ? President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.

2002 ? In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

2005 ? The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.

 

[kortin]

On my birthday (August 21st):

1831 ? Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
1911 ? The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
1959 ? President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day

Yeah, not a lot of important events, I suppose. But apparently Counter Strike: Global Offensive is being released on August 21st, 2012, which just completely ruins my year. :\

 

[Mr Fixit]

September 27th
1066 ? William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England. I knew about this one...
1777 ? Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day. Kinda interesting i guess...
1937 ? Balinese Tiger declared extinct. Not cool...
1998 ? The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday. Maybe thats why I'm so full of useless information....

And its World Tourism Day apparently...

 

[decaying dead]

april 26, 1986 (same year and everything)

chernobyl happened... enough said

 

[Guffe]

Gratz.
I'm born in march, and I won't go as far back in time as you but last year actually.
Got really really really drunk and had a hell of a time!!

 

[Vrach]

1st November 1988. The most important thing I can see on wikipedia would be the formal formation of the European Union in 1993. Not bad.

Also, obviously, holiday-wise, the All Saints Day / Day of the Dead (first day)

 

[scrubnpuff]

Elliott Smith died.

 

[Thumper17]

The first pullitzer prizes were awarded June 4th 1917. Also, Russel Brand and Angelina Jolee share my birthday. Also, Eduard Khil Mr. Trololol died.

 

[217not237]

December 13.

1938: a concentration camp opened.

2003: Saddam Hussein was captured.

1935: Dick Van Dyke was born.

1989: Taylor Swift was born.

Oh yeah, and I saw a vagina for the first time.

 

[Nekron_X]

.....alot....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_29#Events

 

[lacktheknack]

May 29th: "White Christmas" was recorded, Ronald Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union, and the law allowing Canadians to keep aboriginal slaves is... upheld in 1733. Gawrsh dratit.

 

[sigma2]

Nothing too exciting for me unfortunately.

I just know that a Pope died and that the world might end.

It won't of course, but that would be one hell of a party!

 

[Justyn Stahll]

June 12 is my birthday...6 more days until I buy a cupcake put a candle in it and start singing "Still Alive" from portal...
As for my last birthday me and my friend watched bad Sy-Fy movies
Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
So..Much...win