BIrthday shareing and what happened on this day

[Smashingpennies]

Ran across these two neat sites; the first one is for finding out if you share your birthday with anyone famous, the second site if to find out if anything happened on your birthday in history.

www.famousbirthdays.com (http://www.famousbirthdays.com)

www.datesinhistory.com (http://www.datesinhistory.com)

[TangoWedding]

Interesting!


On my birthday in 1990, Sadaam Hussein warned that the US would repeat the Vietnam experience. :whoa: Interesting.




Halo 3 was also released on my birthday. :bblol:

[Nekochanpurr]

Cool Websites!
This all happened on my birthday! O-O

1623 The first breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan. He loses
1642 The first compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1775 The U.S. Army is founded.
1775 US Army founded
1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
1777 The Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, adopts the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1841 The first Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma

[october6]

this is what happened on my birthday
April 30

1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed
1563 Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
1658 Montreal Quebec, Marguerite Bourgeoys opens Ville Marie's first school for French and Indian children, in a stone stable
1722 The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant
1774 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
1789 George Washington inaugurated as first president of US
1798 Congress establishes Department of the Navy
1803 US doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
1808 The first practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state

[Smashingpennies]

This is what happened on my BD Oct 17th.


0532 Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1346 David II of Scotland, in attempting a military diversion to relieve the siege of Calais, is wounded and captured by England's Edward III.
1492 Columbus sights isle of San Salvador
1662 England's King Charles II sells Dunkirk to the French.
1748 French troops lift siege of English at Pondicherry, India.
1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY
1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1787 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
1805 Napoleon breaks camp at Boulogne, proceeds by forced marches into Germany, forces the surrender October 17 at Ulm of a 30,000-man Austrian army under Baron Karl Mack von Leiberich, 53, and caps the victory by taking Vienna
1829 Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opened
1850 James Young obtains a patent for the extraction of paraffin from shale, the beginning of the paraffin industry in West Lothian
1854 Miners burn down Eureka Hotel, Ballarat, after court dismisses murder charges against hotelier James Bentley, accused of kicking a young miner to death
1854 The Australian newspaper The Age, is published for the first time in Melbourne
1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1860 First pro golf tournament held in Scotland
1868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
1871 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus
1894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
1899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1904 Bank of Italy opens its doors
1912 Turkey declares war on Bulgaria and Serbia.
1913 Serbs invade Albania.
1917 First train over the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence. This was constructed by the Dominion Government for use by the National Transcontinental Railway. This bridge was notorious in that it fell down twice during construction: On August 29, 1907 the south cantilever arm collapsed killing 65 or more workmen.
1918 Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic
1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
1931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
1933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
1934 "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio
1941 First US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland
1945 Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina
1956 England's first large scale nuclear power station opens
1957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House
1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1959 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
1967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
1967 The Broadway play "Hair" is first performed
1969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
1973 5 month oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins
1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
1977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of the 4 hijackers
1979 1,800 Marines landed in Guantanamo Bay as a demonstration of naval power in the wake of the Soviet refusal to withdraw the Russian combat brigade in Cuba.
1979 D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8
1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982
1987 First World Series game in a covered stadium in Minnesota Metrodome
1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
1989 Earthquake in SF (6.9) kills 67
1995 Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment is declared the oldest living person, with a proven age of 120 years and 238 days
1998 A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. At least 700 die
1999 Former US nurse Orville Lynn Majors is convicted of murdering six patients at a western Indiana hospital; the jury deadlocked on a seventh count. (Majors is serving a 360-year prison sentence.)
2000 Pope John Paul and Britain's Queen Elizabeth meet and speak of their hopes for Christian unity. It is her first visit to the Vatican in 20 years

[Nekochanpurr]

WOW Smashingpennies!! A LOT of things happened on your birthday! =D

[Smashingpennies]

Yep! I was really surprised on what happened, I was also surprised to find out who I share a birthday with.

I share one with the actress that was the Lois Lane in the superman movies, I also share a birthday with Alan Jackson, the country singer.