What happened on your Birthday?

[A.J.Sawyer]

I got bored, I lack a graphics card, so I'm making a pointless thread... Deal with it

As the title says, what REAL events happened on the day you were born?

17/01/1991

Linky Poos

Operation Desert STORM officially begins at 2:38 am local in Bagdad, as Apache's first attack at 02:38 am.

That was the most exciting thing I could find, what about the rest of you?

[Guerra norte]

The Russians invaded Everon on the day I was born.

[A.J.Sawyer]

Thread post editted slightly

[eddie]

03/05/1990:

Gary Merrill, actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 75

Gloria Carter Spann, President Carter's sister, dies at 63 of cancer

[[R-MOD]Mongolian_dude]

1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines

That shows it was my destiny to PWN the MEC airfield last night on Kashan with a Cobra......
Or it means jack sh1t.

...mongol...

[Red Halibut]

Jessica Moore was born,
A Beech E18S (Reg N54K) had gear failure at Peter O Knight Airport (NTSB Ident: MIA68F0122)
First anniversary of The Eighth Battalion of The Royal Australian Regiment
ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Established
Biafra invaded the Mid Western Region with the intent to threaten Lagos

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
Thang Thanh Nguyen, born in Soc Trang, Vietnam, murderer, FBI Most Wanted
U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa

[lonelyjew]

4/25

1607 - Eighty Years' War: Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1707 - The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1719 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published.
1792 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 - "La Marseillaise" (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1829 - Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1846 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
1847 - The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1859 - Ground is broken for the Suez Canal.
1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Marks' Mills.
1881 - Caulfield Grammar School is founded in Melbourne, Australia.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1901 - New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1915 - The ANZAC spirit tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
1916 - Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
1916 - ANZAC Day commemorated for the first time.
1926 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name Reza Shah Pahlavi.
1935 - Fire claimed the second capitol building in Salem, Oregon and burned down.
1938 - U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
1940 - The Faroese flag Merkið is made the official flag for the Faroe Islands.
1943 - The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket was instituted.
1944 - The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1945 - Elbe Day: United States and Russian troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
1945 - The U.S. Army blows the swastika from the top of the Zeppelintribüne.
1945 - Nazi occupation army leaves Milan after a partisan insurrection. This day is taken as symbol of the liberation of Italy.
1945 - Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1961 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1972 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
1974 - Carnation Revolution: A coup in Portugal restores democracy.
1975 - As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
1976 - Rick Monday prevents two protesters from burning an American flag during a baseball game at Dodger Stadium.
1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1982 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983 - American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1986 - Mswati III was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
1988 - In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
1989 - James Richardson is freed from a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of his seven children.
1993 - 300,000 gay, lesbian, transgender, and allied activists march on Washington, DC demanding freedom from discrimination.
2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties gaining entrance into the European Union.
2005 - 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
2007 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
2007 - The Dow Jones Industrial Hit 13,000 for the first time in history, closing at 13,089.89

[eddie]

Edit: damn it.

[[R-MOD]Bob_Marley]

Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service

How dull.

Same day, but not my birth year:
740 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.
1640 - The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
1774 - The first Continental Congress adjourns.
1776 - Benjamin Franklin departed America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution
1795 - The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1825 - The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
1859 - The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
1860 - Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
1863 - The Football Association is formed.
1881 - The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
1905 - Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
1912 - First Balkan War: The city of Thessaloniki is unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day the Serbian troops captured Skopje.
1917 - Battle of Caporetto: Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the hands of Germany and Austria during the World War I.
1918 - Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
1936 - The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation.
1940 - The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1942 - World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, was sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.
1943 - World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends.
1944 - Future Vice-president, and later, President Harry Truman publicly denies ever having been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
1947 - The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
1947 - The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq.
1948 - Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
1951 - Boxer Joe Louis comes out of retirement to fight Rocky Marciano. However, Marciano would win the fight in eight rounds.
1954 - Trieste return to Italy.
1955 - After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares its permanent neutrality.
1955 - Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
1958 - Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York to Paris.
1964 - Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
1965 - The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs).
1965 - The body of Sylvia Likens is found in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1970 - Doonesbury first appears as a syndicated daily strip in about two dozen newspapers.
1977 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
1978 - Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
1984 - "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
1984 - John D. McCollum shoots and kills himself after spending a day listening to Ozzy Osbourne records; a lawsuit is later filed by his parents over the song "Suicide Solution", but the case is eventually thrown out.
1992 - The command and control system of the London Ambulance Service fails catastrophically.
1992 - The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
1994 - Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
1994 - Announcement that Andrew Wiles correctly proved Fermat's last theorem.
1995 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
1997 - Basketball player Charles Barkley is charged with aggravated battery and resisting arrest after throwing Jorge Lugo through a plate glass window in a dance club in Orlando, Florida.
1999 - Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
2000 - Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï.
2001 - The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2002 - Moscow Theater Siege ends: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before.
2003 - The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres, and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
2004 - AT&T Wireless is officially acquired by Cingular Wireless. The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first World Series since the 1918 season