Your Birthday: The History of

[Typhoid]

Got this from another forum and thought "Hell, why not make a new thread."


Anyways, just neat, obscure events or birthdays that happen to also be on yours.


April 18:

-1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
-1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
-1923 – Yankee Stadium opens.
-BBC Radio infamously announce that there is no news on that day.
Birthdays:
1963 – Conan O'Brien, American comedian
Deaths:
-1955 – Albert Einstein,

[Ginkasa]

Entirely from Wikipedia. November 30:

- 1803: Louisiana Territory transferred from Spain to France.
- 1940: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz married.
- 1974: Fossil known as Lucy discovered
- 1995: Official end to operation Desert Storm
- 2004: Ken Jennings finally loses at Jeopardy.

Births:

- 1667: Jonathan Swift
- 1835: Mark Twain
- 1874: Sir Winston Churchill
- 1918: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (he did the voice of Alfred in Batman TAS)
- 1929: Dick Clark
- 1937: Ridley Scott
- 1943: Terrence Malick
- 1955: Kevin Conroy (voice fo Batman in Batman TAS)
- 1955: Billy Idol
- 1965: Ben Stiller

[Acebot44]

Some pretty interesting stuff happened on this day...

October 19th

* 202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army.
* 1453 – The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
* 1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
* 1789 – Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
* 1812 – Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
* 1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
* 1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
* 1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
* 1959 – The first discothèque opens.
* 1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
* 1987 – Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
*2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.


Births

1945 – John Lithgow, American actor
1954 – Joe Bryant, American basketball player and Kobe's daddy
1962 – Evander Holyfield, American boxer
1965 – Brad Daugherty, American basketball player
1970 – Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor

[BlueFire]

September 11


1185 – Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
1609 – Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
2001 – The September 11 attacks take place in the United States. Airplane hijackings result in the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.

[Fox 6]

April 5th

This year it was the Easter Monday

456 – St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain.
1792 – U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
1930 – In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1976 – In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.


Births

1908 – Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
1916 – Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
1937 – Colin Powell, U.S. Army General, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and 65th Secretary of State
1973 – Pharrell, American music producer (The Neptunes)


Deaths

1964 – General Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
1976 – Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
1994 – Kurt Cobain, musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
2008 – Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)

[Combine 017]

Events:

668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
1830 - 1st person to be run-over by a railroad train.
1913 - 1st U.S. milch goat show held, Rochester, New York
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1948 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

Births:

1828 – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1913 – Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (d. 1994)
1938 – Gaylord Perry, baseball player (lolz)
1989 - Combine 017, Game Taverneer.

Deaths:

1352 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
1830 – William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1885 – Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train) (b. 1861)
1989 – Olga Erteszek, American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner (b. 1916)
2008 – Richard Wright, keyboardist and founding member of Pink Floyd (b. 1943)