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does anyone have an important historical event tied to their birthday?

 

mine is 14th October- anniversary of The Battle of Hastings

 

11th November:heh:

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does anyone have an important historical event tied to their birthday?

 

mine is 14th October- anniversary of The Battle of Hastings

 

Yeah, Kurt Cobain shot himself on my birthday.

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A quick google search says:

 

October 3rd in History

1929: Yugoslavia formed, uniting three separate kingdoms

1952: Britain tests its first atomic bomb, on an island off the coast of Australia

1966: Basutoland becomes the independent Lesotho

1990: Germany officially reunified, with Berlin the capital city

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Heres mine...

 

September 26th in History

1887: Gramophone patented in Germany

1984: UK agrees to hand over the sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1999

1990: Soviet parliament agrees on bill allowing religious practices

 

September 26th birthdays

1888: T.S Eliot, Poet and playwright

1898: George Gershwin, American composer

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O my did a look on mine and....

 

1980: John Lennon shot

1991

The official end of the Soviet Union (USSR) when three of the major republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia unite to form a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

1988

As many as 100,000 are thought to have been killed by an earthquake in Armenia.

1987

US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Intermediate Muclear Forces Treaty in Washington DC. Its the first nuclear arms reduction agreement either country has signed.

1981

In Britain, Arthur Scargill is elected President of the National Union of Mineworkers.

1980

Former Beatle John Lennon is shot dead outside his apartment in New York by lone gunman Mark David Chapman.

1968

Apollo 8 astronauts send the first live television pictures from their spacecraft back to Earth.

1941

World War II: Britain, Australia and the United States of America declare war on Japan following the surprise attack on the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, the day before.

1914

World War I : Battle of the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic.

1907

Gustavus V becomes King of Sweden following the death of Oskar II.

1864

Opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon at Bristol, England. The bridge is designed by English civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

1863

English boxer Tom King defeats American John Heenan to become the first heavyweight champion of the world.

1733

First recorded sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object. A man in Dorset, in the West of England, reports seeing a polished silver disc in the sky.

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11th November:heh:

 

My friend's daughter has that birthday.

 

Anyway, some author was born on my birthday, think it was Shakespeare or Dickens, can't remember, or be arsed to check.

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The Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England was signed on May 28th 1503, which lasted a whole 10 years. James IV of Scotland was also married that day.

 

1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.

1968 - Kylie Minogue was born.

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April 6th in History

0: Earliest recorded solar eclipse

1789: US Congress begins regular sessions in Federal Hall, NYC Lobbyists only arrive later

1830: Mormon church founded in the United States

1896: First modern Olympic games begin in Athens, Greece

1909: The North Pole reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary

1917: The United States enter World War I

1965: Early Bird, world's first commercial communication satellite, launched

 

 

April 6th birthdays

0: Jesus (according to scholars' estimates, Religious leader

1483: Raphael, Italian painter

1671: Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French philosopher

1866: Butch Cassidy, American 'Wild West' outlaw

1874: Harry Houdini, Famous escape artist

1928: James Watson, American scientist who discovered DNA structure

1929: Andre Previn, American conductor

 

Heh, sweet same day as that fake religious guy.

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April 6th in History

0: Earliest recorded solar eclipse

1789: US Congress begins regular sessions in Federal Hall, NYC Lobbyists only arrive later

1830: Mormon church founded in the United States

1896: First modern Olympic games begin in Athens, Greece

1909: The North Pole reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary

1917: The United States enter World War I

1965: Early Bird, world's first commercial communication satellite, launched

 

 

April 6th birthdays

0: Jesus (according to scholars' estimates, Religious leader

1483: Raphael, Italian painter

1671: Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French philosopher

1866: Butch Cassidy, American 'Wild West' outlaw

1874: Harry Houdini, Famous escape artist

1928: James Watson, American scientist who discovered DNA structure

1929: Andre Previn, American conductor

 

Heh, sweet same day as that fake religious guy.

 

Jordan. In actual fact Jesus did live. The romans were in power then and people have found records of his crucifiction on roman papers.

 

:hehe:

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does anyone have an important historical event tied to their birthday?

 

mine is 14th October- anniversary of The Battle of Hastings

 

Highlights of my birthday:

1843 - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is first published in England.

1984 - The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People's Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997, is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.

1997 - The film Titanic is released. :mad:

1999 - Portugal transfers sovereignty of Macau to the People's Republic of China.

 

They day we gave Hong Kong back being my actual birthday, but China do well on my birthday it would appear.

 

Got a couple of famous birthdays though:

1969 - Richard Hammond, British television presenter :awesome:

1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress

1974 - Ricky Ponting, Australian test cricketer

1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor

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Why the hell did you bump it?

 

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