the day you were born!!!

lisa.c

wasnt sure where to post this thread so feel free to move it to another if you think it is appropiate.

what happened in the world the day you were born??
heres what happened on my arrival!


MARCH 13 1981

President Reagan commits federal funds to help Atlanta in investigation of child murders.....Another missing child reported in Atlanta.....VP George Bush leaves for Atlanta tomorrow.....Reagan in New York City to watch son Ron's performance with Joffrey II ballet company.....Congressional delegation set to visit El Salvador cancels trip.....Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte accuses exiles living in Miami of financing right-wing terrorists.....Arrival of Green Berets soon to arrive in El Salvador.....Soyuz spacecraft docks with Salyut space station.....Former Bolshoi defector Yuri Stepanov released by secret police in Moscow.....Prince Charles suffers fall from horse.....Mary Pickford memorabilia auctioned off.....Teachers' strike in Ravenna, OH said to be longest in history.

nothing majorly interesting!
whats your news?

Stephen

princess grace of monaco died.

KdjaCL

dec 12 1975

i was born , didnt get much better than that for rest of the day.

kdjac

Gordon

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joined the Doobie Brothers

Töpher

March 17

Some guy called Paddy chased some snakes.

Guy:Incognito

2nd March 1981

fist few goolge results

Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Wash DC

Basketball scores: http://www.basketball-reference.com/games/NBA_19810302.html

The board of education had a meeting apparently: http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/boe/meetings/minutes/1981/minutes.030281.pdf

And In The Charts: http://www.80sxchange.com/80s_charts/1981.htm

alleepally

The My Lai massacre story from the Vietnam war was broken by Seymour Hersh on November 12th 1969.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/My%20Lai%20Massacre

feylya

25 December 1983

Some dude with long hair called Jesus was born, 1983 years before.

littleninja

Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

tman

Anna Paquin was born... and "eye of the tiger" topped the canadian charts.

what a day!

mike65

Lyndon b Johnson made his "We Shall Overcome" speech.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/lbjweshallovercome.htm

Beatles did the mono mix of Ticket to Ride.

Other general Mar 15 events include Murder of Julius Ceasar, Columbus returns to Spain, Mikhail Gorbechev is elected the first and last executive president of the USSR. Birthdays of David Cronenberg, RyCooder, Sly Stone, Dee Snider (yaa!),

Mike.

Giblet

Elvis was born

Raphael

1790: Supreme Court convenes for the first time
1965: Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama
1991: South African president F W de Klerk says he would repeal all apartheid laws

naitkris

5th September 1983

myself was born, and...

- 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
- Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph

Bottle_of_Smoke

David Beckham celebrated his 10th birthday

Xcom2

feylya wrote:

25 December 1983

Some dude with long hair called Jesus was born, 1983 years before.

Has to win the prize!!!

G

Big Ears

September 10th 1989 .

Hungary opens its borders to the West, allowing thousands to leave East Germany .

Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship .

embee

January 3rd 1981 is my birthday.

January 3rd throughout the ages.....

1496 - Leonardo DaVinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther.
1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands.
1881 - J.R.R. Tolkein is born.
1899 - The first known use of the word "automobile" in the New York Times.
1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial control over Italy.
1956 - Mel Gibson is born.
1959 - Alaska is named as the 49th State of the USA.
1960 - My mama is born.
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1981 - I am born.
1987 - Aretha Franklin - first woman inducted into the Rock&Roll Hall of Fame.
1992 - Marathon becomes Snickers. *
2000 - Final original "Peanuts" comic strip is published.
2004 - Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars.


*May not be true.

Cucullan

January 18th 1980-Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1

ixoy

December 10th 1978

Ed Wood died. Since I was born on the same day, maybe I'm his reincarnation? A bunch of Nobel prizes were handed out as usual.
For all you geeks - Doom's shareware release was on my birthday in '93.

ando

a lot of 23 year old's here !!


6th June 1945.. D-Day
6th June 1981.. ME!!

bug

The priminister of Italy was found dead in the boot of a renault In Rome and Nightfever by the beegees was booging everyone down on the dancefloors

Flukey

The QE2 was launched.

ChumpStain

On the 8th of August 1986 I was born! :eek:

How much more of an event can you ask for? Nothing big happened it seems, I typed the 8th of August into Google but nothing came up.

fizzynicenice

not in the same year or nuthin but i share my birthday with Mao Tse Tsung's anniversairy

mr_angry

Giblet wrote:

Elvis was born

No way! 8th of January by any chance? Same as myself.

There was a mad snowstorm back in 1982 when I arrived. It was so bad, my Dad couldn't get from Dundalk to the hospital in Drogheda for 3 days because the roads were all blocked.

rmacm

July 31st Herman Goering gave the order to begin gassing Jews in the concentration camps. Courtesy of www.dailyrotten.com

Cheers
Rory

elivsvonchiaing

U.S. Patent on the Computer Mouse 21 June 1967 (21 Jun 1967)
Article URL: http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/Archive/patent/mousepatent.PDF

+ loads of boring ****e in Vietnam and the Séanad.

lisa.c

some cool history going on. my birthday just seems so boring compared to some replies.

although i was born on a friday which probably makes me one unlucky bit.ch. any one else born on friday 13th??

Oriel

27th October 1981...


...Feck all.

elivsvonchiaing

21-June, 2367: The body recently recovered by archaelogists from the ice - from the pre-city Ata Clitoris (you don't seriously think they'll get this right in 300 years time , has been identified - from archives it was deduced - his real name was in fact Elvis Von Chiaing

Mossy Monk

May 5th 1980
SAS rescue ends Iran embassy siege

Other stories of interest from May 5th include:
1981: Bobby Sands dies in prison
1961: Shepard becomes first US astronaut
2001: Sun shines on foot-and-mouth crisis
1955: Dr Salk promotes polio vaccine in UK
1967: First all-British satellite 'Ariel 3' launched

Lozjm

22 Feb 1972: IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks - headquarters of the Parachute Regiment,

HashSlinging

12/11/73

# 1934 - Charles Manson, murderer :eek:
# 1943 - Brian Hyland, singer
# 1943 - Wallace Shawn, actor, playwright
# 1944 - Booker T. Jones, musician (Booker T and the MG's)
# 1944 - Al Michaels, sports reporter
# 1945 - Neil Young, singer, songwriter, musician
# 1961 - Nadia Comaneci, gymnast and Experienced person from survey division
# 1968 - Sammy Sosa, baseball player
# 1970 - Tonya Harding, figure skating star
# 1978 - Andrew Kinlochan, singer, musician

daggeredge

22nd July!

1916 - In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 injuring 40.

1933 - Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.

1934 - Outside Chicago, Illinois's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.

1937 - New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.

1942 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.

1946 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration killing 90.

1962 - Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.

1977 - Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.

1984 - I'm born - the world becomes a better place!!!!

1991 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment.

1992 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradiction to the United States.

1997 - The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario

2003 - Members 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.

briano

18th December 1980:

Christina Aguilera was born
Maze Prision Hunger Strike ends
Super Trooper By Abba was at number one in the states. If that wasn't bad enough, "There's no one quite like grandma" was number one in the UK. Music, it would appear, had not been invented in Ireland at that stage.

lisa.c

any body actually know of a site that can do a proper search goggle dosent exactly give ya much????

BaZmO*

lisa.c wrote:

any body actually know of a site that can do a proper search goggle dosent exactly give ya much????

Here ya go!

ToxicPaddy

Feb 19th 1975

Twas a wednesday, midweek, feck all happening...

I was born and so was she

What more could you want?

Tox

Nemici

26th of august 1976


Prince Bernhard, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, agreed to resign his positions with the Dutch armed forces and industry following severe criticism of his behavior by a commission of inquiry into a Lockheed bribery scandal.


(sigh)

Sleepy

2nd August 1980

Feck all happened...

gogo

Its my birthday today, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me.
beside the great birth of gogo, the following happened:

1945: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki

American forces drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in the past three days.

1969: Film star stabbed in 'ritualistic' killings
The actress, Sharon Tate, is found brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home, along with four other victims.

1981: Second killer escapes from Broadmoor
A double murderer has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane - the second killer to do so in less than three weeks.

DivX

Happy birthday gogo

19th August 1972 saturday.

Google gave me the following (scraping the barrel)

On 19 August 1972 Gordon Pike and Robin Flewellyn said a five- foot-tall animal appeared on the surface of Thetis Lake AND CHASED THEM FROM THE BEACH. Flewellyn was CUT on the hand by six razor-sharp points atop the monster's head. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer was quoted at the time as saying: 'The boys seem sincere, and until we determine otherwise we have no alternative but to continue our investigation.'

Otherwise a non-event... except me

BEAT

* Bing Crosby and Elvis died the year I was born, the song 'hotel california' by the Eagles was#1"

and a few more tid bits from the date June 29th in history:

June 29, 1997 "London Assurance" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 72 perfs
June 29, 1997 18th US Seniors Golf Open: Graham Marsh
June 29, 1997 Greg Norman wins PGA St Jude Classic
June 29, 1997 Michelle McGann wins ShopRite LPGA Classic
June 29, 1997 Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
June 29, 1997 Tyrenda Williams, 18, of Alabama, crowned 40th America's Junior Miss
June 29, 1996 Andrea Leah Plummer, of Tennessee, crowned 39th America's Junior Miss
June 29, 1996 Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900
June 29, 1995 George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz
June 29, 1978 VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East
June 29, 1977 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
June 29, 1977 Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR
June 29, 1976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain
June 29, 1975 3rd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner
June 29, 1975 8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
June 29, 1974 Milt coup in Ethiopia
June 29, 1972 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel & unusual
June 29, 1972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
June 29, 1971 Rolling Stones Mick Jagger & Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense
June 29, 1971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
June 29, 1970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
June 29, 1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House
June 29, 1969 24th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
June 29, 1969 On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's NL record for consecutive games played (896)
June 29, 1968 "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
June 29, 1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem
June 29, 1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge
June 29, 1966 In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time
June 29, 1966 KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
June 29, 1966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
June 29, 1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
June 29, 1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released
June 29, 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
June 29, 1963 "Little Me" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 257 performances
June 29, 1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts
June 29, 1963 SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien
June 29, 1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
June 29, 1962 Frank Howard, hits the 5,000th Dodger home run
June 29, 1962 JFK dines with premier MacMillan in London
June 29, 1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)
June 29, 1961 Willie Mays is 4th major leaguer with 3 or more HRs twice in a season
June 29, 1960 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open
June 29, 1960 KYA-AM in SF changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
June 29, 1959 Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
June 29, 1958 Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm
June 29, 1957 12th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
June 29, 1957 Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj & Sjepilov leave USSR Communist Party
June 29, 1956 Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, Calif
June 29, 1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed
June 29, 1956 PM Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans)
June 29, 1955 Argentine state of siege ends
June 29, 1954 Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer
June 29, 1953 XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
June 29, 1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
June 29, 1952 7th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs
June 29, 1950 US beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994)
June 29, 1950 West Indies beat England by 326 runs thanks Ramadhin & Valentine
June 29, 1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
June 29, 1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
June 29, 1947 2nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betty Jameson
June 29, 1947 Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
June 29, 1946 "Are You with It?" closes at Century Theater NYC after 264 perfs
June 29, 1946 "Billion Dollar Baby" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 219 perfs
June 29, 1946 Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist
June 29, 1946 British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv
June 29, 1945 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
June 29, 1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
June 29, 1944 German counter attack at Caen
June 29, 1944 Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead
June 29, 1944 Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden
June 29, 1944 Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk
June 29, 1944 US 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg
June 29, 1943 Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ)
June 29, 1943 US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
June 29, 1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe
June 29, 1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony, premieres
June 29, 1941 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
June 29, 1940 Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
June 29, 1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
June 29, 1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
June 29, 1939 4th Dutch government of Colijn falls
June 29, 1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
June 29, 1936 Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
June 29, 1936 Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"
June 29, 1933 Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
June 29, 1932 USSR & China sign no attack treaty
June 29, 1931 109¯F (43¯C), Monticello, Florida (state record)
June 29, 1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno Mussolini
June 29, 1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
June 29, 1929 31.1¯C (88¯F) hoogste temperatuur op deze dag in De Bilt
June 29, 1929 Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
June 29, 1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
June 29, 1926 Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history
June 29, 1921 34th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats E Ryan (62 60)
June 29, 1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
June 29, 1913 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops
June 29, 1911 Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes premier
June 29, 1906 12th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 295 at Onwentsia Club Ill
June 29, 1904 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe
June 29, 1903 British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo
June 29, 1899 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
June 29, 1897 Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)
June 29, 1891 100¯F (SF, CA)
June 29, 1891 National Forest Service organized
June 29, 1881 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud
June 29, 1880 France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti)
June 29, 1867 Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs
June 29, 1864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
June 29, 1863 Battle at Westminster Maryland: Federal assault
June 29, 1863 George A Custer (23) appointed Union Brig-general
June 29, 1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN
June 29, 1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
June 29, 1862 Day 5 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station Va
June 29, 1858 Great fire in London harbor
June 29, 1858 Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
June 29, 1857 Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)
June 29, 1854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
June 29, 1854 Netherlands allows corporal punishment
June 29, 1850 British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse
June 29, 1822 Prince Charles Bonaparte marries niece Zenaãde Bonaparte
June 29, 1800 Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar
June 29, 1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
June 29, 1776 Va state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
June 29, 1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
June 29, 1762 Russian Czar Peter III divorces his wife Catharina II
June 29, 1755 515 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic
June 29, 1694 Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
June 29, 1682 Sofia names herself regent of Russia
June 29, 1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
June 29, 1540 English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic
June 29, 1534 Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
June 29, 1529 Emperor Karel V & Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona
June 29, 1428 Jacoba of Bavaria signs cease fire with Philip the Good
June 29, 1377 French invasion fleet lands at Rye England
June 29, 1312 Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned

ven0m

Aweful lot of violent/sick stuff happeneed on January 9th throughout history - guess my birth is but yet another addition - MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid
1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
1718 France declares war on Spain
1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
1799 Income Tax introduced in UK
1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon CA
1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter SC
1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson
1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
1912 US marines invade Honduras
1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montréal, 78 children died
1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines
1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panamá Canal Zone
1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis
1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
1995 Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight
1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport
1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
1998 Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

This is possibly my favorite of them all - hehehehehehehhe!!!!


::: ven0mous :::

Ruaidhri

http://www.tnl.net/when/12/6
highlights :
Christopher Columbus discovers Hispaniola (1492 )
As a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the 'Irish Free State' is formally created
(1921)

(btw it's the day after prohibition is repealed in america after 13 years in 1933 )

CareBear

17th March 1984
Howard Jones scored his first UK No.1 album with his debut release Human's Lib and of course I was born!

ll=llannah

On my birthday in 1994, (October 5) there was a huge mass suicide cult thingy. happy times. i just think of it as lots of eccentric people leaving the planet, and another eccentric person being born. only, i'm without the cult suicide contingent. um, yes.
party on.

Tommy Vercetti

29th October

1999: Super-cyclone wreaks havoc in India
1978: I was born
1975: Franco's 36-year reign ends

Dman_15

"15 August 1984 gas release at Lake Monoun killed 37 people"

orangerooster

March 8th is fairly boring throughout history-

1985: Beirut car bomb kills dozens
At least 45 people die and 175 are injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.

1950: Gas turbine car gets road test
Car manufacturers Rover unveil the first car powered with a gas turbine engine.

2001: Speed racer's( ) wreck raised.
Its actually about someguys boat and not Speed from speed racer....bah!