Talkin' 'bout birthdays

[frankiegth]

Does anyone share their birthday with a famous event in history?
Must confess I can't find anything on mine 23rd May Sure something must have happened at some place somewhere at sometime.

My lads birthday falls on the anniversary of Custers last stand June 25th.

[ambersalamander]

Yes. That date marks the day I fell in love for the first time, aged 14 ;D

Oooh- just found out something VERY interesting about shared birthdays!

Tinpot Terrace member Matt-DTFC (whose birthday happens to be today- happy birthday Matt, I won't bother starting a thread cos you're never on here ;D ) shares his birthday with his girlfriend, Heather. Matt and Heather, who support Dorchester, are my second favourite Conference South couple after, naturally, myself and young Martello. We also share a birthday, six days after them. Isn't that fascinating?

[frankiegth]

23rd may


1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
1533 - The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1555 - Paul IV becomes Pope.
1568 - Netherlands declared independence from Spain.
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.
1846 - Mexican-American War: Mexico declares war on the United States.
1945 - World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
1969 - Rock band The Who release Tommy, the first rock opera.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, what remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building is imploded.
1998 - The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum, with a high margin of three-fourth 'yes' votes to Northern Ireland.
2004 - Part of Paris Charles De Gaulle International Airport Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.

I just knew something would turn up. May 23rd isn't that boring a date afterall.

[Col ISIHAC.]

21st July.

1969, man walks on the moon - or not depending on whether you subscribe to those wonderful conspiracy theories

1994 Tony Blair chosen as Labour leader.

2005 - that less catastrophic attempt at mangling Londoners on the underground. The trial continues...

[ambersalamander]

All right then. March 2 *hint, hint* ;D

March 2, 871 Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army
March 2, 1799 Congress standardizes U.S. weights and measures
March 2, 1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
March 2, 1855 Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
March 2, 1925 Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
March 2, 1933 Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
March 2, 1933 "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy New York City
March 2, 1938 Landslides and floods cause over 200 deaths in Los Angeles, California
March 2, 1956 Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France
March 2, 1958 Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
March 2, 1958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
March 2, 1965 "Sound Of Music" opens
March 2, 1968 U.S.S.R. launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
March 2, 1969 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die)
March 2, 1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
March 2, 1970 Rhodesia becomes independent republic
March 2, 1970 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
March 2, 1976 Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest
March 2, 1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
March 2, 1983 Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips and Sony introduced
March 2, 1999 Dusty Springfield dies aged 59

I share my birthday with two people called Amber, one of whom is an actress called Amber Smith and the other is a girl I was at Brownies with called Amber Frost.

Other people sharing my birthday include Martello , 3 of my other friends , and some musicians. Lou Reed, Chris Martin, Jon Bon Jovi and Karen Carpenter, for example. Mikhail Gorbachev and Harry Redknapp also share this honour Actress Jessica Biel was born on the same day as me, 2 March 1982.

[DazaB_WCFC]

30th February












































































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[samd]

27th of February

1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 - Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1617 - Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
1626 - Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1700 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
1703 - The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in Mobile, Alabama.
1793 - The Giles resolutions are introduced to the United States House of Representatives asking the House to condemn Alexander Hamilton's handling of loans.
1801 - Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
1812 - Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1827 - The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1844 - The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1861 - A crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian troops, killing five protesters.
1864 - American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1879 - Announcement of the discovery of artificial sweetener saccharin.
1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 - The British Labour Party is founded.
1900 - The FC Bayern München (Munich) is founded.
1921 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1922 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
1933 - Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
1939 - American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14
1942 - World War II: the USS Langley, the first United States aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese warplanes.
1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 - The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1961 - The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1963 - The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1967 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1971 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform abortus provocatus .
1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1974 - People magazine is published for the first time.
1976 - The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
1978 - Blyth Spartans went down 2-1 in their FA Cup Fifth Round Replay with Wrexham, conquerors of Newcastle United in the previous round. The crowd was given as 42,157, but some gates were forced and many were locked out.
1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1989 - Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo.
1990 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on five criminal counts.
1991 - Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."
1996 - Satoshi Tajiri creates the hit media franchise Pokémon.
1999 - While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.
2002 - Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2002 - A Muslim mob attacks a train a few minutes after it leaves the Godhra railway station, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya; retaliatory riots lead to the death of at least 1000 people, mostly Muslims.
2003 - Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church.
2004 - A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines kills 116, its worst terrorist attack.
2004 - Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda.
2005 - Pre-pay price capping on the Transport for London Oyster card is introduced.
2006 - The Harlem Globetrotters extended their overall record to 22,000 wins.

[ambersalamander]

All right Daza. This year my birthday is 30th February, although in Leap Years it falls on the 31st.

[stretfordendling©]

on 21st November...

235 St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
496 St Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1783 Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar
1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered
1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC
1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1848 Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded
1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter
1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1925 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals
1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
1952 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax
1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)
1967 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1968 Supremes & Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
1968 Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage
1970 NY Knicks 1st game against Cleveland Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG
1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
1977 1st flight of the Concorde (London to New York)
1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating
1980 Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 Gene Michaels replaces thingy Howser as Yankee's 25th manager
1980 John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1990 Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris

[DazaB_WCFC]

ambersalamander said:

All right Daza. This year my birthday is 30th February, although in Leap Years it falls on the 31st.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Col ISIHAC.]

dazab1wcfc said:

ambersalamander said:

All right Daza. This year my birthday is 30th February, although in Leap Years it falls on the 31st.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Remember Georgie.

The law on here is that Amber will always, forever and without further debate, have the final word.
Please remember this.

[martello]

admin said:

The law on here is that Amber will always, forever and without further debate, have the final word.
Please remember this.

It's a rule I've learned to obey as well.... ;D

[ambersalamander]

martello said:

It's a rule I've learned to obey as well.... ;D

You bloody well have not!!!

[bh]

Now now childeren!! ;D

[frankiegth]

Samd, "The crowd was given as 42,157".

Where are they now?