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For my entire life, I have thought that I had a sucky birthday. It's in the summer, which is better than being around Christmas, but I had never found anyone who I admired that shared my birthday. Any time that I would look at the celebrity birthday column in the newspaper (you know--that little column that says: "also born on this date...") there would be only one or two people that I had never heard of. The only kinda cool one I ever came across was Bugs Bunny, who, even though being a ficticious character, was listed as being "born" on July 27th.
Then, earlier today, I was be-bopping around on imdb.com. I was checking out the writer's profiles for different films that I was interested in. And there, lo and behold, it listed Gary Gygax as the inspiration for the Dungeons and Dragons movie, and listed his birthday as July 27th!!
I have the same birthday as one of the creators of Dungeons and Dragons!! SO MUCH COOLER than sharing a birthday with a dead president or an overpaid actor!!!
Has anyone else out there found that they share a birthday with a cool famous person? (Erik Mona--you are not allowed to answer this thread. You could just say that you were born on the same day as Erik Mona and that would be cool enough.)
Hah!
On the date of my birthday (18. March) in 3952 B.C., the world was created, according to the monk Beda Venerabilis.
Now try to top that one! :-)
Stefan
When I looked that IMDb page first I was getting a bit desperate since of the younger ones there was only bunch of nobodies...but then of the older ones started to come up some nice names...
Rene Goscinny
Louis Armstrong
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Knut Hamsun
Louis Vuitton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not a bad group, I say (and for the interested, the date is August 4th). Wikipedia mentions among other events destruction of Second Temple in Jerusalem (70 AD) and invention of champagne (1693).
I checked Wikipedia for mine (February 3rd) and aside from the usual array of artists, athletes, and statesmen, the only one I see of D&D interest is actor Warwick Davis (of Willow fame).
Alas, I see that it is also the day that Music died (in 1959) taking down Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane crash. Bye-bye, Miss American Pie.
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When I looked that IMDb page first I was getting a bit desperate since of the younger ones there was only bunch of nobodies...but then of the older ones started to come up some nice names...
Rene Goscinny
Louis Armstrong
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Knut Hamsun
Louis Vuitton
Percy Bysshe ShelleyNot a bad group, I say (and for the interested, the date is August 4th). Wikipedia mentions among other events destruction of Second Temple in Jerusalem (70 AD) and invention of champagne (1693).
Funny !!, it's also my wife's b-day.
If you check, you can also see this : 4th of august, abolition of the french nobles'privileges (in 1789, short after the revolution).
If I check mine, I can see D.H. Lawrence, Jean Aurenche (french movie dialoguist), Brian de Palma, Garry Bardin (russian director of great animation movies), Brad Bird (US director of animation movies "incrdibles" & "iron giant"), Virginia Madsen & Herbert Lom (actors), Moby (musician).
However, it is a more famous b-day for its dead people & sad events : famous people died on that day (Peter Tosh, Max Fleischer among others), but it's a day known to everybody for 2 reasons :
- for my 2nd b-day, Salvador Allende was killed after a military revolution,
- for my 30th b-day, some mad men flew inhabited planes on two towers in NYC.
I was born on the 11th of september 1971 !!
Hmm. May 27th. I see Christopher Lee and Henry Kissinger share my birthday.
That makes it a pretty evil day to be born: Saruman and his real-world equivalent.
I can picture Kissinger plotting with Nixon via a palantir: "There will be no dawn.......for Democrats!"
Timo: Sep 11 is also my brother's birthday. Hard to forget the date now.
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January 13, 1977
The exact same day as Orlando Bloom, a fact that has always been much more exciting for my sister than it has been for me. Orlando and I also share a birth date with "Bull" from Night Court.
More interestingly (for me) are the things that happened or people who've died on my birth date: Johnny Cash recorded one of the greatest albums of all time, At Folsom Prison, on my birthday in 1968. And James Joyce and Ted Demme died.
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Well, I always thought October 1st was a rather humdrum birthday until I went to China. Then I realized that they have a national holiday in honor of MY BIRTHDAY. How about that--my birthday is National Day, the day Chairman Mao stood atop the palace gate at Tian'anmen and declared the founding of the People's Republic of China. (The cool part is that whenever I go to China for research, I have an excuse to take a fun trip instead of working on my birthday).
Otherwise, Wiki reveals numerous historical events of great import on my birthday, notably Alexander's victory over Darius at Gaugamela, the beginning of the Tay Son Rebellion in Vietnam (OK, you've never heard of it, but I did a cool research paper on it when I was an undergrad), the establishment of Yosemite National Park (yay!), the opening game of the first World Series, the sentencing at the Nuremberg Trials, Maris #61, the Thrilla in Manila, Pele retired, and many others.
As for shared birthdays, most notably I have the same birthday as Jimmy Carter and William Rehnquist, as well as Mark McGuire and Rod Carew, Julie Andrews and Vladimir Horowitz, Walter Matthau and Randy Quaid. Not quite as inspiring as a shared birthday with EGG hisself!
September 15.
On this great day in history, Fang the Ferocious came into the world.
Does any more need to be said?
--Fang.
Happy birthday, kikai13!
On my birthday (November 10), all of the following happened.
- The cornerstone of the White House was placed.
- Walt Disney became an FBI informer.
- Coast-to-coast direct-dialing telephone service began in the US.
And these people were born.
- Martin Luther
- King George II of England
- Neil Gaiman
- Josh Peck
And these people died.
- Pope Paul III
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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May 25th. Besides being a square birthday (5-25, 5^2 = 25), it's been the release day for Star Wars and Return of the Jedi the date Scopes lost the Monkey Trial (boo), Oscar Wilde his morals charge, and Lay and Skilling their Enron charges, also Babe Ruth's last home run, the announcement of the Apollo program, and it's Towel Day.
Silliness :)
Birthdays (July 24)
# 1984 Dhani Lennevald (singer)
# 1982 Anna Paquin (actress)
# 1970 Jennifer Lopez (singer, actress)
# 1951 Lynda Carter (actress)
# 1949 Michael Richards (actor)
# 1947 Robert Hays (actor)
# 1942 Chris Sarandon (actor)
# 1941 Barbara Jean Love (singer)
# 1936 Ruth Buzzi (comedienne, actress)
# 1934 Rudy Collins (drummer)
# 1921 Billy Taylor (jazz pianist, music director)
# 1915 Bob Eberly (singer)
# 1914 Frank Silvera (actor)
# 1910 Vera (Salaff) (artist, textile designer)
# 1908 Cootie (Charles) Williams (musician)
# 1900 Zelda Fitzgerald (writer, painter, dancer)
# 1897 Amelia Earhart (aviator)
# 1802 Alexander Dumas (La Pailleterie) (playwright, novelist)
# 1783 Simon Bolivar (South American liberator)
My pedigree isn't as grand as some. I mean, J-Lo?
On August 12
A typhoon destroyed the fleet of Qubilai Kahn
Chicago was founded
The first Model T was built
Allegedly, the first Phillidelphia Expiriments occured
Echo 1 (the firs communication satellite) was launched,
Two hurricanes (F1&F2) occured in 2005.
Born on August 12
Erwin Shrodinger
Tsar Alexei I of Russia
Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia
Mark Knopfler
Died on August 12
Cleopatra
William Jackson Hooker
Ian Fleming
November -which means people forget then say: "I'll make it up to you at christmas." -then don't.
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May 16th
- 1836 - Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia.
- 1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
- 1965 - Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
- 1611 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
- 1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1919 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
- 1921 - Harry Carey, Jr., American actor
- 1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
- 1966 - Janet Jackson, American singer
- 1969 - David Boreanaz, American actor
- 1986 - Megan Fox, American actress
I want the last name "innocent".
February 8th birthdays
1819: John Ruskin, English writer and artist
1820: William Sherman, US general whom the 'Sherman Tank' was named after
1828: Jules Verne, French author
1920: Lana Turner, American film actress
1925: Jack Lemmon, Veteran American film actor
1931: James Dean, American film actor ('Rebel Without A Cause')
1932: John Williams, US film score writer
The new messiah was born on the exact same day as me. Strange.
Jan 5th:
1531: Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry. This event leads to the creation of the church of England
1836: Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
1895: French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank in anti-semitic trial; later declared innocent
1956: Snoopy first walks on two legs in the Peanuts cartoon strip.
1972: NASA announced its plans for a new space vehicle, the shuttle
January 5th birthdays
1928: Walter F. Mondale US Vice President and Minnesota Senator - Born January 5, 1928 in Ceylon, Minnesota. Served as Vice President under President Jimmy Carter 1977-1981.
1931: Robert Duvall, American film actor
1932: Umberto Eco, Italian author
1938: King Juan Carlos of Spain
1946: Dianne Keaton, American film actress
1953: Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
1969: Marilyn Manson, american entertainer.
Deaths:
Jean Kerr, writer (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) - died January 5, 2003 from pneumonia. She was born July 10, 1923.
Tug McGraw (Frank Edwin McGraw, Jr.) died January 5, 2003 from brain cancer at the home of his son, the country music star Tim McGraw, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 59 years old (born August 30, 1944 in Martinez, California.) He was a relief pitcher (Mets & Phillies) and coined the phrase "You gotta believe." For his statistics, see the Baseball-Reference.com Web page: Click Here.
Whoopee.
August 24th, Rome fell to the Goths.
I win.
FH, I share your birthday, and I'd never heard that one before.... My favorite has always been AD 79: Mount Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii and Herculaneum.
But either way, we win!
It's also the date, purportedly, of the first potato chip being prepared (1853) and the patent awarded to Edison for the motion picture camera (1891).
We share the date with Tolstoy, Borges, James Tiptree, Jr., Hal Smith (Otis from Andy Griffeth, Orson Scott Card, Stephen Fry, and Rupert Grint. I know there's a loooong list, but these are the ones I can remember off-hand.
Oh yeah, Yasser Arafat, as well.
Well let's get all up in history then. :) January 5th:
1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning.
1554 - A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1675 - Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert–François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of Capital punishment used for regicides.
1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
1911 - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. founded.
1912 - Prague Party Conference.
1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
1919 - Free Committee for a German Workers Peace founded, which would become the Nazi party.
1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
1944 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1948 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
1957 - Major league baseball player Jackie Robinson retires.
1964 - Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem: the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.
1968 - Alexander Dubèek comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
1970 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres.
1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.
1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
1997 - Russian forces withdraw from Chechnya.
2000 - The first day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
2006 - Independence Air ceases operations.
Births
1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)
1548 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1587 - Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
1614 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
1696 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757)
1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
1762 - Constanze Weber, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)
1779 - Zebulon Pike, American explorer (d. 1813)
1838 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
1846 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1926)
1855 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
1864 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (d. 1911)
1864 - Byron B. Johnson, baseball executive (d. 1931)
1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
1874 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (d. 1967)
1879 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)
1880 - Nikolay Medtner, Russian composer (d. 1951)
1893 - Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown)
1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
1895 - Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987)
1900 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
1902 - Stella Gibbons, English novelist (d. 1989)
1904 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
1906 - Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist (d. 1978)
1908 - George Dolenz, American actor (d. 1963)
1909 - Stephen Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
1910 - Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987)
1910 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
1911 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001)
1914 - George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)
1914 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (d. 1955)
1915 - Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born cartographer (d. 2004)
1917 - Jane Wyman, American actress
1920 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
1921 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
1921 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1923 - Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)
1926 - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet
1926 - Hosea Williams, American activist (d. 2000)
1928 - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani statesman (d. 1979)
1928 - Walter Mondale, American politician
1929 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (d. 1994)
1931 - Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
1931 - Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
1931 - Robert Duvall, American actor
1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian writer
1932 - Chuck Noll, American football coach
1934 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (d. 1971)
1936 - Florence King, American humorist
1938 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain
1938 - Jim Otto, American football player
1938 - Ngugi wa Thiongo, Kenyan writer
1940 - Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (d. 1994)
1940 - Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician
1941 - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
1941 - Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer
1942 - Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist
1942 - Jan Leeming, British television presenter and newsreader
1942 - Charlie Rose, American talk show host
1942 - Terenci Moix, Spanish writer (d. 2003)
1945 - Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director
1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress
1948 - Ted Lange, American actor
1949 - George Brown, American drummer (Kool & The Gang)
1950 - Chris Stein, American guitarist (Blondie)
1950 - John Manley, Canadian politician
1950 - Ioan Petru Culianu, Romanian-born professor (d. 1991)
1950 - Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur
1951 - Steve Arnold, English footballer
1953 - Steve Archer, Contemporary Christian singer (The Archers)
1953 - Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
1954 - Alex English, American basketball player
1956 - Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef
1957 - Kevin Hastings, Australian Rugby League Player
1959 - Clancy Brown, American actor
1960 - Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer
1960 - Phil Thornalley, English bass guitarist (The Cure)
1960 - Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series)
1962 - Suzy Amis, American actress
1962 - Danny Jackson, American baseball player
1963 - Jeff Fassero, American baseball player
1964 - Grant Young, American drummer (Soul Asylum)
1965 - Vinnie Jones, British actor
1966 - Kate Schellenbach, American drummer (Luscious Jackson)
1967 - Joe Flanigan, American actor
1968 - Andrew Golota, Polish boxer
1968 - Ricky Paull Goldin, American actor
1968 - Carrie Ann Inaba, American dancer and choreographer
1968 - Joé Juneau, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - DJ Bobo, Swiss Singer
1969 - Marilyn Manson, American singer
1969 - Paul McGillion, Scottish actor
1971 - Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress
1972 - Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer
1973 - Phil Joel, Australian bassist (Newsboys)
1975 - Kylie Bax, New Zealand model
1975 - Bradley Cooper, American actor
1975 - Warrick Dunn, American football player
1975 - Mike Grier, American ice hockey player
1976 - Matt Wachter, American bassist (30 Seconds to Mars)
1976 - Diego Tristán, Spanish footballer
1978 - Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
1979 - Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby player
1981 - Brooklyn Sudano, American actress
1982 - Janica Kosteliæ, Croatian skiier
1984 - Amanda Hearst, American heiress
1985 - Richard Butler, English footballer
1985 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor (d. 2001)
1985 - Yoon So-Yi, South Korean actress
1986 - Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress
1987 - Kristin Cavallari, American actress
1996 - Max Baldry, British actor
Deaths
842 - Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 794)
1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England (b. 1004)
1400 - John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (bc. 1350)
1465 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)
1477 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy (killed in battle) (b. 1433)
1524 - Marko Maruliæ, Croatian poet (b. 1450)
1527 - Felix Manz, Swiss leader (executed) (b. 1498)
1588 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
1589 - Catherine de Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
1713 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
1740 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667)
1762 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
1771 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)
1846 - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)
1858 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
1860 - Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, first American bishop to be canonized (b. 1811)
1891 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
1904 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)
1910 - Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834)
1922 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
1933 - John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
1937 - Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864)
1941 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
1943 - George Washington Carver, American educator (b. 1860)
1946 - Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)
1951 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1954 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1956 - Mistinguett, French singer (b. 1875)
1963 - Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1970 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1970 - Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer (b. 1896)
1971 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (b. 1899)
1976 - Mal Evans, Beatles' "roadie" (b. 1935)
1979 - Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
1981 - Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1893)
1981 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
1982 - Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
1988 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
1990 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
1991 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (b. 1922)
1994 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
1994 - Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (b. 1912)
1996 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1966)
1997 - André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (b. 1924)
1997 - Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
1998 - Sonny Bono, American entertainer and politician (b. 1935)
2001 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
2003 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
2003 - Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
2004 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2005 - Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)
2007 - Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles (b. 1910)
2007 - Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances
The eleventh day of Christmas in Western Christianity, and the Twelfth Night of Christmas in Western Christianity.
Feast day of:
St. John Neumann[1]
Simeon Stylites[1]
Pope Telesphorus[1]
January 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
September 24th
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jim Henson
Phil Hartman
Sir Arthur Guinness
Interestingly enough, it's also the day of 'Our Lady of Mercy' for the Catholics and Black friday.
Okay, I'm just going to pick the highlights. March 9:
1841 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.
1862 - American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad warships, a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, results in a draw.
1959 - The Barbie doll debuts.
1964 - The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
2007 - The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the FBI had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act, to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.
Births:
1943 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player
1961 - Camryn Manheim, American actress
1971 - Emmanuel Lewis, American actor
1972 - Kerr Smith, American actor
Deaths:
1996 - George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
Interesting.
Events
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.
1585 - Peace of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
1668 - Isaac Newton received an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
1798 - Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.
1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
1846 - Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.
1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100
1865 - American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.
1898 - History of United States overseas expansion: President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1915 - World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo.
1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashed near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
1917 - Russian Revolution: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the Tsar Nicholas II.
1930 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
1941 - World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany.
1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
1954 - Formation of the TANU in Tanzania
1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
1959 - 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.
1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
1974 - West Germany wins 1974 FIFA World Cup.
1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.
1980 - Last concert by rock band Led Zeppelin.
1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1985 - Boris Becker becomes the first unseeded player, the youngest male (at the time), and the first German to win the Wimbledon tennis singles title, at age of 17 years, 7 months.
1987 - First videogame in Hideo Kojima's prolific Metal Gear series released in Japan.
1991 - Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1994 - Aden is secured by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen.
1996 - Richard Krajicek becomes the first Dutch tennis player to win the Wimbledon single title.
2002 - A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia was formed.
2004 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expired.
2005 - A series of four terrorist explosions occur on London's transport system killing 52 people, plus four suicide bombers.
2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
2007 - Pope Benedict XVI issues the Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass.
2007 - A series of Live Earth concerts take place all over the world.
2007 - Following a privately organized popularity poll, the New Seven Wonders of the World are announced in Lisbon, Portugal.
[edit] Births
1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1528 - Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, 2nd daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
1656 - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)
1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
1766 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)
1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and Nobel laureate (d. 1926)
1848 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician (d. 1919)
1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
1874 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)
1893 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
1899 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (d. 1974)
1901 - Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973)
1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film producer (d. 1970)
1902 - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1904 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
1906 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian politician (d. 2003)
1919 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
1921 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
1921 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
1922 - Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
1924 - Mary Ford, American singer (d. 1977)
1929 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1927 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician
1931 - David Eddings, American author
1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian composer and musician
1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
1933 - David McCullough, American historian and author
1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
1937 - Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator
1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
1941 - Michael Howard, British politician
1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
1942 - Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
1943 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
1945 - Michael Ancram, British politician
1947 - Howard Rheingold, American author
1947 - Rob Townsend, English drummer (Family)
1948 - Jean Leclerc, French Canadian actor
1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress
1955 - Len Barker, American baseball player
1959 - Jessica Hahn, American model
1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer
1965 - Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
1965 - Mo Collins, American actress
1965 - Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter
1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
1967 - Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress
1968 - Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
1969 - Sylke Otto, German luger
1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 - Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
1969 - Cree Summer, Canadian voice actress
1969 - Robin Weigert, American actress
1970 - Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
1970 - Erik Zabel, German cyclist
1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
1971 - Alistair Potts, British rower
1972 - Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
1972 - Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver
1973 - José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
1974 - Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player
1974 - Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Tony Benshoof, American luger
1975 - Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
1979 - Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
1979 - Carl Breeze, British racing driver
1980 - Deidre Downs, American beauty queen
1980 - Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
1981 - Synyster Gates, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
1982 - Cassidy, American rapper
1982 - Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail)
1983 - Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer
1984 - Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
1984 - Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
1989 - Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer
[edit] Deaths
1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1572 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (b. 1520)
1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
1790 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
1865 - Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1823)
1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
1865 - George Atzerodt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1833)
1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
1925 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
1956 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)
1964 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904)
1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
1972 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886)
1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1919)
1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
1980 - Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (b. 1905)
1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
1990 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2002 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
2006 - Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
2006 - Syd Barrett, guitarrist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd. (b. 1946)
Well, on my birthday (March 18), Caligula was declared Emperor in 37 AD,
and Jacques de Molay burned at the stake in 1314.
Other thing are listed here , to keep the post short.
Stefan
Paizo post virgin... My b-day July 7th
Frances Xavier Cabrini, first American canonized July 7th. Also, I share my b-day with Ringo Starr.
Welcome to the boards, Legion. All of you.
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Births:
Pope Pius VIII (theologian)
Edwin Hubble (astronomer)
Nadine Gordimer (writer)
Bobby Kennedy (politician)
Dick Smothers (comedian, the Smothers Brothers)
Duane Allman (musician, the Allman Brothers)
Joe Walsh (musician)
John R. Bolton (politician)
Bo Derek (actress)
Mike Diamond (musician, the Beastie Boys)
Davey 'Havok' Passaro (musician, AFI)
Deaths:
Leo Tolstoy (writer)
Allan Sherman (comedian)
31 October, what a great day for a birthday!
The date for the events and deaths i post Is July 7.
Welcome to the boards, Legion. All of you.
"We" salute you...
Welcome to the boards, Legion. All of you."We" salute you...
What appropriate timing. I was just about to rock.
I'm going to a friends 21st birthday party today! There's going to be a bouncy castle and everything! :D
I'm going to a friends 21st birthday party today! There's going to be a bouncy castle and everything! :D
There's supposed to be weight restrictions for those things. Here's to hoping there's no pop that sends you all across the sky like an untied balloon.
I'm going to a friends 21st birthday party today! There's going to be a bouncy castle and everything! :DThere's supposed to be weight restrictions for those things. Here's to hoping there's no pop that sends you all across the sky like an untied balloon.
I'm just concerned about: bouncy castle + much booze = ?
;)
I saw a bouncy castle get rolled by a strong wind once. A whole bunch of kids were swept off to the hosptal... lawsuits no doubt ensued.
Angelina Jolie is one year my twin. Maybe I have a chance ; )
I'm must glad I don't know anybody that's famous AFTER I was born. ; )
I'm going to a friends 21st birthday party today! There's going to be a bouncy castle and everything! :DThere's supposed to be weight restrictions for those things. Here's to hoping there's no pop that sends you all across the sky like an untied balloon.I'm just concerned about: bouncy castle + much booze = ?
;)
Realizing mid-bounce that you're about to land in the pooled gurge of a tipsy collective. Priceless.
I saw a bouncy castle get rolled by a strong wind once. A whole bunch of kids were swept off to the hosptal... lawsuits no doubt ensued.
Those things are big cushy kid-eaters are what they are.
