Which major events occured on your birthday

[Guy Fawkes]

As the title says... What major events occured on your birthday

15th February
1852 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient.
1906 - The British Labour Party is organised.
1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
1950 - The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty.
1952 - King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle
1965 - A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
1971 - Decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
1995 - Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems
2000 - Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
2001 - First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature
2003 - Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in the history of the world.
2005 - YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.

 

[Marc]

1977 - I was born

 

[hitony]

Zeebrugge ferry went down on my Birthday...............(about the only thing that did )

 

[Braders]

7th November in history

1990
Mary Robinson becomes the first woman President of the Irish Republic.
1985
The birth of the guy that would later be known as Braders by one and all.
1984
In the American presidential elections, Republican Ronald Reagan wins a second four-year term in office.
1974
In Britain, the mysterious disappearance of Lord Lucan following the murder of his children's nanny and a serious assualt on his wife.
1967
British heavyweight champion Henry Cooper beats challenger Billy Walker to becomes the only boxer to win three Lonsdale Belts outright.
1956
An official ceasefire during the Suez Crisis following the British and French invasion of Egypt after President Nasser had announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal.
1935
Australian pilot Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith is seen flying over Calcutta on a flight from England but never seen again.
1885
Completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
1832
In the United States, Andrew Jackson, nominated from the first Democratic Convention to be held, defeats Henry Clay in the presidential elections.
1943
Folk singer Joni Mitchell born in Alberta, Canada.
1942
Actress Jean Shrimpton.
1926
Australian soprano Joan Sutherland born in Sydney.
1918
American TV evangelist Billy Graham born in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
1879
Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky.
1867
Chinese politician Sun Yat-Sen. Dies 1925.
1867
Polish-born chemist Marie Curie. Winner of two Nobel Prizes in 1903 and 1911 (for physics and chemistry respectively) following her discovery of radium.
1867
Composer Arturo Toscannini. Dies 1957.
1980
American film actor Steve McQueen. Films included 'The Great Escape'; 'Bullitt' and 'The Magnificent Seven'.
1978
Gene Tunney, United States boxing champion, dies of blood poisoning aged 80.

 

[Flavor Flav]

3rd september
WW2 began
ebay was founded

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

3rd March

1431 - Eugenius IV becomes Pope.
1791 - The United States Mint is created by the United States Congress.
1820 - The United States Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1845 - For the first time the United States Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
1849 - Minnesota is organized as a United States territory.
1849 - The United States Department of the Interior is established.
1849 - The United States Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.
1857 - France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1863 - Idaho is organized as a United States territory.
1865 - The United States Congress authorizes formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
1873 - Censorship: The United States Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was publicly inaugurated on March 5).
1878 - Bulgaria regained its independence from Ottoman Empire.
1879 - The United States Geological Survey is created.
1885 - A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.
1904 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).
1910 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
1915 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded.
1918 - Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I.
1931 - The United States adopts "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem.
1933 - Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.
1938 - Glenn Cunningham breaks the world record for the indoor mile run by completing the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.
1939 - In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
1943 - 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station in London.
1945 - World War II: Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers.
1949 - The Tucker automobile Corporation folds.
1953 - A Canadian Pacific Comet Jet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11
1955 - Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time, on the program Louisiana Hayride.
1959 - The San Francisco Giants officially name their new stadium Candlestick Park.
1961 - Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1969 - In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
1974 - A Turkish DC-10 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris killing 346
1976 - Fleetwood Mac records Rumours, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977.
1978 - Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland but are recovered 11 weeks later near Lake Geneva.
1985 - Censorship: Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to Huggies Diapers for claiming that their television ads had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn."
1991 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1995 - In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.
1999 - LaGrand case: The State of Arizona executes Walter LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery that led to a death. Walter's brother Karl had been executed a week earlier; Germany had initiated legal action in the International Court of Justice to attempt to save Walter.
1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones begin their attempt to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon without stopping. Their journey ended in success on March 20.
2001 - A U.S. Air Force Materials Command C-23 Sherpa transport crashes during stormy weather in central Georgia killing 21
2003 - During the Iraq disarmament crisis, a international political protest was held called The Lysistrata Project where actors performed readings of the Ancient Greek anti-war satirical play, Lysistrata

 

[Norman Potting]

I have a facsimile of the front page of the Express for my Birthdate (07 March 1959) and on that particular day it seems that absolutely b****r all major happened. Cant speak for all the other March 7ths in history tho'. Is there not a "on this day..." website somewhere as I can't be arsed to look for it.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

VE Day in1945

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

30th March

240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 - Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
1814 - Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
1822 - Florida Territory created in the United States.
1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
1844 - One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1855 - Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas - "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1856 - The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1858 - Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
1863 - Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
1867 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly.
1870 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1870 - Florida territorial government established.
1885 - The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
1909 - The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens.
1910 - Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
1912 - Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1939 - The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph.
1939 - First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway.
1940 - Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk.
1945 - World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
1949 - Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joined NATO.
1951 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1954 - Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada.
1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
1965 - Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1972 - Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1979 - Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.
1982 - Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
1997 - Five (channel) Begins broadcasting in the UK
2006 - Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
2006 - UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.

 

[Son of a hillbilly]

1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
1081 - The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV .
1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1386 - Opening of the University of Heidelberg
1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
1648 - Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants.
1748 - Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1767 - Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
1775 - African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
1851 - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1860 - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
1908 - Belgium annexes the Congo Free State.
1912 - The First Balkan War begins.
1914 - The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee.
1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
1944 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
1945 - The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945 - A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, staged a coup d'etát against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who was overthrown by the end of the day.
1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
1964 - The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
1967 - The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1968 - The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
1968 - Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90m in the long jump at the Mexico City games. This becomes the longest unbroken track and field record in history, standing for 23 years, and is later named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century.
1977 - German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is executed and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. The West German government states that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.
1989 - East German leader Erich Honecker resigns.
1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR.
2003 - Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2007 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.

well thats what wikipedia says. Im quite interested that the BBC shares my birthday.

 

[British Bulldog]

Heysel stadium disaster.

 

[Dullard433]

Nothing, it was very dull

 

[Lord Bracknell]

President George Bush told Congress that "the war in Iraq is over" ... 1991

 

[hitony]

1997
A lone gunmen steals a £650,000 Picasso from a London art gallery and escapes in a taxi.
1996
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams makes public an IRA warning that it is prepared for another 25 years of war.
1987
The Herald of Free Enterprise ferry capsizes while leaving Zeebrugge Harbour killing 193 passengers.
1957
Ghana independence.
1944
World War II: US planes from bases in Britain begin daylight bombing raids over Berlin.
1930
In Massachusetts, Clarence Birdseye markets the first frozen foods.
1926
Fire destroys the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon.
1899
Chemist Felix Hoffman patents the world's most used pain-relief drug, the aspirin.
1890
An ornithologist releases 60 pairs of starlings in New York's Central Park as a memorial to William Shakespeare. The starling is now one of America's worst pests.
1857
Start of the Indian Mutiny within the British Army.
1836
The Alamo falls to Mexican forces under Santa Anna after a 12 day battle. Frontiersmen Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie are among those killed.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

1957
Ghana independence.

For some reason, I remember that vividly, Tony. It seemed exciting that something very special was happening on my birthday.


And don't forget dougdeep ... who has gone through the same experience of HISTORY as us two.

 

[Seagulls over Lewes]

764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan - the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations.
1905 - (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1918 - Austria becomes a republic.
1920 - Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
1922 - The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1936 - In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1938 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
1941 - The Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, which would last for three days.
1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
1969 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident.
1971 - Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
1978 - As Bishop of Rome Pope John Paul II took possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran
1979 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes first images of its rings.
1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first spacecraft to be launched twice.
1982 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1982 - Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1993 - Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan" is issued.
1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1998 - Then Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
1998 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
1999 - The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2001 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2003 - Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2003 - With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems.
2006 - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.

 

[pasty]

Feb 9th

1979
Britain establishes its first nudist beach, in Brighton.

1974
US Vice-President Gerald Ford is sworn in as US President following the resignation of Richard Nixon over the Watergate Affair.
1969
The bodies of US actress Sharon Tate, wife of film director Roman Polanski, and four others are found at a house in Beverly Hills, California. Members of a commune known as The Family, led by Charles Manson are later arrested, tried and jailed.
1965
Singapore gains its independence, becoming an independent republic within the British Commonwealth after seceding from Malaysia.
1963
In Britain, ITV transmits the first edition of the pop music programme Ready Steady Go to rival the BBC's Top of the Pops. The presenter is Cathy McGowan.
1945
World War II: The second atomic bomb is dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, an estimated 70,000 are killed
1942
In India, Mahatma Gandhi and 50 other senior figures are arrested after the All-India Congress initiates a quit India campaign against British rule.
1941
World War II: RAF fighter pilot Douglas Bader is shot down and captured by German troops.
1936
Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal
1914
World War I: HMS Birmingham sinks a German submarine, the first to be sunk by the Royal Navy.
1902
Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in Westminster Abbey, London
1870
Britain passes the Elementary Education Act, giving compulsory free education to every child in England and Wales aged between 5-13.

 

[hitony]

For some reason, I remember that vividly, Tony. It seemed exciting that something very special was happening on my birthday.


And don't forget dougdeep ... who has gone through the same experience of HISTORY as us two.

I was only 2 so i dont think i can remember that Ed

And of course Mr Deep (who i also have had the pleasure of meeting) does indeed share that famous day of March 6th.

 

[dougdeep]

I spoke about birthdays to Lord B yesterday, at least I mentioned it in pissing.

 

[Motogull]

Ties in with a recent thread:

1066: The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.