Facts about your Birthday

#52
#52
pualsline said:
I found this ironic for my september 12th birthday considering how much I run

490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
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That is also my brother's birthday.
 
#55
#55
Few facts for February 17th.

Events
1864 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.

1865 – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.

1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.

1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched.

1972 - President Richard M. Nixon departed on a historic trip to China.

1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.

Bdays
1874 Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (IBM)
1889 H. L. Hunt, American oil tycoon
1934 Dame Edna, Comedian
1936 Jim Brown, Football Hall of Famer
1963 Michael Jordan, Basketball Hall of Famer
1964 Michael Bay, Director
1972 Billie Joe Armstrong, Rock musician (Green Day)
1981 Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor
 
#57
#57
Oct. 9

1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France. Happened on my exact birthday.


1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.

1940 – John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980). Not a huge Beatles fan but I can appericate what he/they did for music

1958 – Mike Singletary, American football player
1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1976 – Nick Swardson, American actor. This guy has been in some funny movies example Grandma's boy.

Pretty cool. I have never looked up things that happened on my birthday. Pretty good idea OP.
 
#58
#58
9 years before my birth...

1954 – Computer programmer William Tunstall-Pedoe calculates this day to be the most objectively dull day since 1900.
 
#60
#60
I share a birthday with Roger, from WNML (the caller). I know because he calls to tell them that it's his birthday every year.

I win.
 
#62
#62
Dec. 5th

1930 - Vols 1st ever bowl game, a 13-0 victory over NYU

1998 - Vols SEC Champs with a 24-14 victory over the MSU bulldogs

Thats the only real important facts I could find :blink:
 
#63
#63
June 9th

Famous Birthdays:

1672 - Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], tsar of Russia
1934 - Donald Duck, famous fowl
1940 - Dick Vitale, US, sportscaster
1954 - Craig Colquitt, Tennessee Punter
1961 - Michael J. Fox, Edmonton, Alberta, Canadian actor
1963 - Johnny Depp, Queensboro Ky, actor
1981 - Natalie Portman [Natalie Hershlag], Jerusalem, Israeli/American actress


Self proclaimed kinkiest/sexiest birthday of the year.
 
#65
#65
Orangesmokey said:
Oct. 9

1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France. Happened on my exact birthday.


1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.

1940 – John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980). Not a huge Beatles fan but I can appericate what he/they did for music

1958 – Mike Singletary, American football player
1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1976 – Nick Swardson, American actor. This guy has been in some funny movies example Grandma's boy.

Pretty cool. I have never looked up things that happened on my birthday. Pretty good idea OP.
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We have the same birthday.
 
#66
#66
louisiana purchase
french foreign legion was formed
alexander graham bell makes first successful phone call
doolittle raid on tokyo japan
mars recon. orbiter arrives at mars

share birthdays with
to****sugu takamatsu
edward baker lincoln
val logsdon fitch
chuck norris
jim valvano
lance burton
timbaland
carrie underwood
 
#68
#68
vader said:
Picking some that caught my eye

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1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)
1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal, "The Desert Fox" (d. 1944)
1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German, leader of failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (d. 1944)
1925 – Howard Baker, American political advisor
1929 – Ed Asner, American actor
1940 – Sam Waterston, American actor
1951 – Beverly D'Angelo, American actress
1952 – Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (d. 2011) (oh, yeah!!!)
1967 – Pedro Borbón, Jr., Dominican baseball player
1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004)
1971 – Jay Harrington, American actor (born on the same day)
1974 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer (Nickelback) (sonofa...)

Events


1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

1791 – The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.

1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).

1859 – The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.

1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.

1971 – Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. (the day I was born)

1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

Was the unabomber trying to tell me something?
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I'm glad we share the same B-Day - saved me the trouble of looking stuff up
 
#70
#70
March 21st

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