What happened on your birthday?

[Michael Martin]

If you go to Wikipedia, put in your birthdate (month/day) in the search engine and look at what happened that day throughout history! Put about 5-6 of the events here to share!



March 3



1791 - US Mint established (I have used their money many times!)

1845 - Florida admitted to the union (I was raised in Florida)

1885 - AT&T was incorporated (I retired from them after 31 years)

1931 - The Star Spangled Banner becomes national anthem (I stand everytime I hear it)

1991 - Rodney King get's his ass whooped (I never whooped anyones ass) :wacko:

 

[Jeff C]

June 18



1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania



1940 - "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill



1967 - Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival



1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space

 

[A K]

Truman, Carter and Bush II elected. One out of thee ain't bad.

 

[Tommy Wright]

July 2nd



It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after. (did not know this)



1850 - The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane. (For us military folk)



1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon. (This is the coolest one)



1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.



1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.



1982 - Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.



1983 - The Police release their final album, "Synchronicity", which would eventually spend 17 weeks at #1 on the U.S. album chart



2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

 

[Rodger Tellefson]

August 12, Rodger



490 BC - the Battle of Marathon, in which Athens defeated an invading army of Persians, may have been fought on this date in the proleptic Julian calendar - but see 12 September.



30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.



1676 - Praying Indian John Alderman shot and killed Metacomet the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.



1868 - US President Andrew Johnson suspends Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, thus setting up his own impeachment.



1908 - First Model T Ford built.



1981 - Release of the IBM PC or Personal Computer.



2005 - An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island.





December 3 (& Georgia)



1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition mark their explorations from the Missouri River overland to the Columbia River on a pine tree.



1901 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".



1929 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to the U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy.



1947 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.



1989 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end (some commentators from both nations exaggerated the wording and independently declared the Cold War over).



2006 - St. Scholastica's College Manila in the Philippines celebrates its 100th year.

 

[Johnny O]

I don't have to look. My birthday is Sept. 11. Really. :blink:

 

[Chet 02]

1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.



1862 - American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.



1916 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).



1954 - First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.



1957 - Full-scale production of the Edsel automobile begins.



1974 - Christine Chubbuck becomes the first person to commit suicide on-air.



1995 - First item sold on Amazon.com



2005 - Jack Nicklaus plays his last hole of competitive golf during The Open Championship at Hole 18 at St Andrews, finishing with a birdie.

 

[Ryan betts]

6-12...



1880 - The first baseball perfect game is pitc1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthdayhed by



1560 - Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.

1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.

2007- i turn 21!!!

 

[EddieS'04]

I was born and got slaped on the butt....:lol:

 

[rob moore 2]

10-29





A GREAT MAN WAS BORN LOL

 

[Dreman]

Wow, and you were, too, huh?:lol:

 

[James FreemanJr]

April 12th



1606 - The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.



1633 - The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.



1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.



1864 - American Civil War: Fort Pillow massacre -- Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest kill most of the African American soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.



1917 - World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. It is also considered a major event in Canadian history for the primary role Canadian forces played in the attack.



1931 - The strongest wind in the world measured at 231 mph was recorded on the summit of Mount Washington



1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry S. Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States.



1955 - The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.



1961 - Human spaceflight: Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).



1981 - Human spaceflight: The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.



1994 - Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.



1996 - Yahoo! has its initial public offering, selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each.



1999 - American President Bill Clinton was cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in the Paula Jones sexual harassment civil lawsuit.



Nothing too amazing.