On your birthday....

[Barrel of Fun]

And on the day I was actually born....
1984 John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"

From beyond the grave?

 

[Igor Gurinovich?]

600 Pope Gregory the Great decreea saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze

 

[Simon Morgan]

2003 - largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska. WHOOAAA

 

[GYM]

On the exact day i was born
1986 52 die in plane and helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
1986 De Havilland Twin Otter and Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25

How depressing

 

[galebs]

1987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race due to Donna Rice affair

Bloody hell OGH certainly get's about a bit

 

[severnside gull]

1945 VE Day - first peacetime league fixtures eagerly awaited

 

[fruitnveg]

On my actual Birthday "1987 - 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka"

"1965 - Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal" ....ok

 

[Brightonfan1983]

26 May 1983 NASA launches Exosat. Not my birthday but why didn't I hear about that

 

[nevergoagain]

great a cerebal palsy telethon in 97, 92 & 89.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

1998 handcuffs designed specifically for detaining thalidomide sufferers is issued to the UK Metropolitan Police

1978 NBA basketball season cancelled when the Tall Black Dudes of America (TBDA) go on strike demanding better access to footwear

1845 Hans Drukel, a German farmer marries a prize sow in a church service in Hesse, Germany. He dies that night when he is attacked whilst trying to consummate the marriage

1502 first recorded fish pun in the English Language

 

[MillitantSeagull]

1923 Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)


1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced

1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title

... And a few others.

 

[Dover]

Loads of Wimbledon finals, but some silly country gained their independence.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

1996 Osama Bin Laden is due to reprsent Afghanistan in the Olympics but pulls out of the synchronised swimming team due to illness

1799 lesbianism is invented

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

2007 inaugural International Otter Day

1978 soap rationing finally abolished in South Norwood, UK

1834 10th series of Last of the Summer Wine commissioned

1430 English Haggis extinct

 

[Blackadder]

953 Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik

955 Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees

They were the best two years of Ratherius's life!

 

[Badger]

1993 "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 48 performances
1968 "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
1863 London's 1st subway opens
1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK

My actual birth day:
1984 Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
1984 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, and D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
1984 U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years

 

[Acker79]

Seems to be a few independences and a few nuclear tests...

2005 First human face transplant is performed in France
1991 1st world championship of women's soccer, U.S. defeats Norway 2-1
1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
1990 Bush proposes U.S. - Iraq meeting to avoid war
1988 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1987 Afghanistan Constitution adopted
1982 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1980 Uruguay's new constitution rejected by referendum
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 France performs nuclear test
1974 Miss Teenage America Pageant
1974 Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson and Gray in Ethiopia)
1967 Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman
1967 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from U.K.
1967 People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain
1966 Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1956 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards and the News)
1954 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala)
1950 U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb
1936 London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire
1931 Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London destroyed by fire
1931 His Master's Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
1900 A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1872 1st International soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow)
1866 Work begins on 1st U.S. underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1782 Britain signs agreement recognizing U.S. independence
1678 Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
1648 English army captures King Charles I

 

[Gwylan]

Shakespear's Birth

Shakespear's Death

[pedant alert]Shakespeare's birthdate is unknown - it's taken to be 23 April but the actual day was never recorded. On the other hand, you missed out the death of Cervantes which was also on 23 April.

On my birthday, Edison demonstrates the phonograph for the first time and Barcelona football club is founded - which is rather cool.

Not a good day for composers though: Monteverdi, Puccini and Korngold all died on my birthday.

 

[surrey jim]

1985 - Surrey jim born
1996 - THAT York city game.
2005 - Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France