Inspired by "Who Shares the Same Birthday As You"...what other things happened

[honeywolf7]

on your birthday. If you don't know, you can find out at: http://www.bored.com/anyday.htm
I've always loved knowing that Hitler committed suicide on my birthday (31 years early birthday present.)
Also
0311 Emperor Galerius recognizes Christians legally in the Roman Empire
1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1562 1st French colonists in US Jean Ribaut & Hugenots at Parris Island NC
1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st President of US
1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
1885 Boston Pops Orchestra forms
1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1900 USA annexes Hawaii
1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of New York World's Fair
1945 Concentration camp München-Allag freed
1948 Organization of American States charter signed at Bogotá, Colombia
1961 1st shuttle flights between Washington DC, Boston MA & New York NY begin
1974 President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1975 Last US helicopter leaves US embassy groundsin Vietnam, Saigon surrenders
1980 Queen Beatrix of Netherlands, Wilhelmina Armgard, ascends to the throne (hmmm....seems to be a big day in the history of the Netherlands...she and her mother were also both born on April 30th.)
1992 208th & final episode of "The Cosby Show" on NBC-TV

On the other hand, the one that my mom always remembers for her birthday is that Mt. Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii back in 79 A.D. and it looks like the White House was burned on her birthday back in 1814 as well....doesn't look like a very good day.

My daughter was born on Super Bowl Sunday (the year that the Packers beat the Patriots.)

 

[worm761]

very cool!!! alot of asteroids were discovered on my birthday! also, the first total solar eclipse was reliably recorded! lots of things happening in outer space. LOL maybe that explains a few things.

 

[meeko_33785]

1679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri
1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price
1871 Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup
1876 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1884 1st world series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0
1888 Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, vested
1890 The opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg)
1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1910 Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
1931 Disney's Silly Symphony "The Spider and the Fly" released
1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1921 Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis
1927 City of Netanya, Israel founded
1932 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1942 Disney's Goofy cartoon "How to Swim is released"
1944 Soviet army invades Hungary
1945 Jackie Robinson signs Montr‚al Royal contract
1946 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC) (Flushing Meadows)
1947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
1954 Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 Hungarian Revolution began
1956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
1957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1957 "Duck for Hire" airs on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
1959 "The Birth of the Swamp Fox" airs on Walr Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1962 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m
1964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1967 NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game
1968 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)
1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,002 kph)
1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1973 Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president
1975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
1977 The Incredable Journey is aired on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1977 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve the new Canal treaties
1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness
1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion
1982 Carnivale de Lumiere, the first nighttime fireworks show at EPCOT Center's World Showcase premieres
1983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut
1983 Truck bomb in Beirut kills 241 US soldiers
1984 NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
1984 STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1988 Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid
1989 George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
1997 SaveToad.com, an internet site protesting the then-upcomming closure of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is launched
2001 The soundtrack to Monsters Inc is released
2003 Walt Disney Concert Hall has its gala opening

 

[MerryPoppins]

That was fun. I'll have to share this with my kids. They'll like it.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

I didn't check for anything else, because it is a slow time, but Live Aid was on my birthday in 1985. (that was a big benefit concert, if you are younger than 22 or so)
Robin M.

 

[honeywolf7]

MerryPoppins, ummmm...what happened on your birthday? LOL