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My birthday is March 19

1279: The Song dynasty ends when the Mongolians won at the Battle of Yemen
1649: The House of Commons of England abolishes the House of Lords
1918: Congress establishes time zones and approves Daylight Savings Time
1941: The Tuskegee Airmen (first black US Army Air Corps) was activated
1944: Nazis occupy Hungary (they don't have to be fun facts)
1954: Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.

And I share my birthday with Glenn Close, Harvey Weinstein, Bruce Willis, and AKB48 member Sakura Miyawaki (I'm actually two years older than her).

i was born 4 days after columbine

Some famous people also born on Nov 21st:

Voltaire
Goldie Hawn
Bjork
Sean Schemmel
Troy Aikman
Ken Griffey Jr.
Harold Ramis
Nikki and Brie Bella
Carly Rae Jepsen

a few events that happened on Jan. 18:
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
2003 – A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2007 – The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.

A lot of people died on October 4th.

July 10th is Nikola Tesla's birthday, but that's about it.
Oh, and apparently most of London was burned down in a fire that day too.

Pretty sure I can beat everyone in this thread. In 2007, the San Francisco mayoral office declared it would honor the 40th anniversary of a local gay porn company by making February 23 Colt Studio Day. After a backlash, they rescinded and the mayor claimed he had not approved the decision.

tfw your birthday was almost gay porn day

My birthday is pi day.

November 26:

- One of the least common birthdays of the year.
- A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress. (1789)
- Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. (1922)

March 23:

1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.

well fuck

1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year-old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.

well FUCK

1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.

WELL FUCK

This is the only person born on July 25th that I immediately recognized. But apparently, one of the Golden Girls was as well. And a guy who won three acting Oscars during his career, which is something that only two other men have accomplished. That's about it though.

BTW, this is very helpful.

September 22:

480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a ceasefire.

December 14
1799 – George Washington Dies
1903 – Wright Bros. first shot of flying
1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 flys by Venus
1972 – Eugene Cernan becomes last man to walk on the moon
2012 – Sandy Hook Happened, and thats all i'll say about that

April 20
Cannabis culture day
Hitler was born in 1889

1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while en route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
1988 – Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
2014 – At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
2015 – A midair explosion from flammable powder at a recreational water park in Taiwan injures at least 510 people with about 183 in serious condition in intensive care.

love June 27th

April 12th

I was born on Easter Sunday.

Famous people born on 12th April: Claire Danes, Tom Clancy. J, Scott Campbell

Famous people died on 12th April: Franklin D Roosevelt

Events on 12th April: Union Jack (flag of United England and Scotland, UK flag) was used by British ships. Polio vaccine is declared safe and effective

Oh wow, that's tomorrow actually. Well, happy birthday then!

November 22nd:
Biggest one obviously being JFK assassination :I
Also Toy Story was released.
Some famous people who were also born that day are Mark Ruffalo, Jamie Lee Curtis, and ultimate waifu Scarlett Johansson.

My favorite two (since mine's on April 17th):

• 1937 – Daffy Duck's first appearance, in Porky's Duck Hunt.
• 2014 – NASA's Kepler confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.

May 4th (Star Wars Day)

1932 – In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.

Births
Henry I of France (1008, King of Franks)
Mr. Fuji (1935, Pro wrestler)
Russi Taylor (1944, Voice actress for Minnie Mouse and a few characters in The Simpsons)
Randy Travis (1959, Country singer)
Erin Andrews (1978, Sportscaster)
Dallon Weekes (1981, Bassist for Panic! at the Disco)
Lance Bass (1981, Member of ★NSYNC)
Pamela Horton (1988, Playboy model and also heavily involved in the gaming section of Playboy)
Alexander Gould (1994, Actor known for playing Nemo in Finding Nemo and is also the same exact age as me)

Deaths

Kanō Jigorō (1938, Japanese founder of judo)
Moe Howard (1975, Actor known for The Three Stooges)
Dom Deluise (2009, Actor)
Adam Yauch (2012, Member of the Beastie Boys)

January 16th

Events

27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.

2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.

2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

Deaths

2010 – Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell (b. 1923)
2013 – André Cassagnes, French technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)

June 25th

Events

- Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World
- The Gay Pride Rainbow Flag was flown for the first time in 1978.
- Mozambique achieves independence.
- The Diary of Anne Frank is published in 1947.
- North Korea invades South Korea, kicking off the Korean War

Births

- George Orwell (b. 1903)
- Ricky Gervais (b. 1961)
- Dikembe Mutombo (b. 1966)

Deaths

- Morton W. Coutts (b. 1904)
- Paul H. Patterson (b. 1943)
- Michael Jackson (b. 1956)

Same birthday as John DiMaggio a.k.a. Bender from Futurama a.k.a. Jake the Dog a.k.a. Shnitzel from Chowder.(also same day as Beyonce)

February 7

Events:
1795 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified
1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
1940 – The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
1992 (birth year) – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.

Births:
1804 – John Deere
1812 – Charles Dickens
1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder (author of Little House on the Prairie)
1873 – Thomas Andrews (designer of the Titanic)
1906 – Puyi (last emperor of China)
1946 – Pete Postlethwaite
1960 – James Spader
1962 – Garth Brooks
1962 – Eddie Izzard
1965 – Chris Rock
1978 – Ashton Kutcher
1990 – Jacksepticeye

Deaths:
2000 – Big Pun
2009 – Blossom Dearie (Schoolhouse Rock singer)

The most interesting thing I could find was that I share a birthday with Confucius. And Hillary Duff. And Thomas Crapper (the guy who invented the ballcock).

¯\ (ツ) /¯

My birthday is January 21.

Some notable events are…
1925-Albania declares itself a republic
1954-The first nuclear submarine is launched
1977-Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft dodgers
1981-The DeLorean begins production.

I share a birthday with this guy

and this woman

Also, in according to the Egyptian myth of Nut and Thoth, Nut gave birth to Osiris, Isis, Horus the Elder, Isis, Nepthys, and Set on the last five days of the year, one after the other, so I share a birthday with the Egyptian war god,

Horus the Elder

December 28th for the win.

February 18th:
1294: Kublai Khan dies
1405: Mongol conqueror Tamerlane dies
1546: Martin Luther dies
1564: Michaelangelo dies
1791: Congress allows Vermont to join the United States
1861: Victor Emmanuel becomes the first King of Italy.
1885: Huckleberry Finn was first published
1930: Pluto is discovered
1943: The White Rose student protest movement in Germany is broken up by the Nazis
1954: The first Church of Scientology is founded
1965: The Gambia becomes an independent state
1970: The Chicago Seven are found not guilty
1977: Maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
1978: The first Kona Ironman Triathlon
1979: Snow falls in the Sahara desert for the first and (so far) only time in recorded history
1983: The Wah Mee massacre in Seattle
2001: Dale Earnhardt Sr. dies in a crash during the Daytona 500
2014: Anti-government protests begin in Kiev, Ukraine, leading to the Euromaidan movement and the crisis in eastern Ukraine.

Other people who have my birthday:

Nikos Kazantzakis, Enzo Ferrari, Hans Asperger (yes, as in Asperger's syndrome), Toni Morrison, Yoko Ono, filmmaker Milos Forman, Princess Christina of the Netherlands, John Travolta, Dr. Dre, Vanna White, Molly Ringwald, Regina Spektor, and Changmin from TVXQ.

Oh, and according to Hindu astrologers, midnight on February 18th, 3102 BC was the exact time and date that the current age of darkness began. I think that might make me the messiah.

August 14.

1945 – (August 15 in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific) Victory Over Japan Day, WWII: Emperor Hirohito announces Japan is willing to surrender.


2005 – Crash of Helios Airways Flight 522. All 121 people on board the flight die in the crash.

2010 – The opening ceremony of the first ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.


2015 – The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba reopens after 54 years, back when relations with the United States and Cuba were broken off.

I also share my birthday with the following people:
Yoo Jae-suk, Ray William Johnson, Mila Kunis, and Tim Tebow.

Events
1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1916 – World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
1945 – World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1964 – North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1992 – Khojaly massacre: About 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Holy shit.
Deaths
1999 – Margaret Meagher, Canadian diplomat (b. 1911)
1999 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
Two people died when i was born holy fuck.

Februrary 9

Event: 1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
Births: 1948 – Guy Standing, English economist and academic

yes mang

March 2

Events:

1836 – Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1949 – The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
1983 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
1992 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.

Births:

1793 – Sam Houston, American soldier and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas
1904 – Dr. Seuss, American author, poet, and illustrator
1931 – Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1968 – Daniel Craig, English actor
1982 – Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player & Ben Roethlisberger, American football player

Also, March 2 is Texas Independence Day. So here, have some Texas.

Well Happy Birthday to you!

April 14th

The two most notable events are:
- 1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
- 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40

Fun times… The rest isn't much better, dust storms, a bunch of explosions, kidnappings, people being snuffed by hail…

On the upside, there is at least the following:
- 1981 – STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
- 2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.

Births

- 1954 – Katsuhiro Otomo, Japanese director, screenwriter, and illustrator (Akira)
- 1968 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor, director, and producer
- 1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress and producer

Deaths

- 1995 – Burl Ives, American actor, writer and folksinger (b. 1909)
- 2007 – Don Ho, American singer and ukulele player (b. 1930)

(Note that President Lincoln and most victims of the Titanic don't count, since they died on the 15th.)

On July 29th, 1921, Hitler became leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

…Is this a sign?

393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song dynasty troops.
1264 – In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favor of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War.
1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
And I share a birthday with Filaret, Ukrainian patriarch. (b. 1929)

I share the same birthday is this guy, and I was halfway finished with my post when I noticed this, but realized most of our events are different.

1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches San Francisco.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (died April 15th).
1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2014 – Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Northeastern Nigeria.

Notable celebrity births include Rob McElhenney from Always Sunny in Philadelphia, baseball hall of famer Greg Maddux, twelfth doctor Peter Capaldi, and 2 time NFL Pro Bowler Joe Haden.

Japan has a holiday called "Invention Day"

Jimi Hendrix, Bill Nye and a bunch of other people I don't care about we're born on November 27th

January 9th.
1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
1861 – American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War".
1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
2015 – The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation. Elsewhere, a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market, Hypercacher, in the eastern Paris suburb of Vincennes.
Well ok…

Sadly and interestingly, nobody I recognize was born on my birthday. As for deaths, however…
1873 – Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France (b. 1808)

April 21th:
I share my birthday with the Queen Elizabeth II and it was also the day were Mark Twain and Manfred von Richthofen died.

my hebrew date if of birth matches perfectly the date of Israel's victory in the first war of independance…

It's this month, but fortunately far enough from Christmas that I don't get half the amount of gifts

September 9

9 – Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
533 – A Byzantine army of 15,000 men under Belisarius lands at Caput Vada (modern Tunisia) and marches to Carthage.
1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
1141 – Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara Khitai, defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan.
1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1892 – Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
1924 – Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
1939 – Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.

Births

214 – Aurelian, Roman emperor (d. 275)
1349 – Albert III, Duke of Austria (d. 1395)
1466 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1890 – Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (d. 1980)

Deaths

1087 – William the Conqueror, English king (b. 1028)
1398 – James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1438 – Edward, King of Portugal (b. 1391)

July 24

Steven Williams (Boogie2988)
Simon Bolivar (First President of Bolivia)
Amelia Earhart (First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic)

August 29

1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction
1842 – The Treaty of Nanking is signed, ending the Opium Wars and ceding the island of Hong Kong to Britain
1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City
1949 – The U.S.S.R. test their first atomic bomb
1958 – Michael Jackson is born
1966 – The Beatles play their last major live concert at Candlestick Park, California
1984 – Prince's single Let's Go Crazy/Erotic City is released
1986 – American actress and singer Lea Michele is born
1991 – The Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspends all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the institution
2005 – Hurricane Katrina slams into the U.S. Gulf Coast, destroying beachfront towns in Mississippi and Louisiana, displacing a million people, and killing more than 1,000
2012 – The opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympic Games is held in London