What happened on YOUR borthday ?

[scotlass]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/



* 1905: Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia's first ever constitution and parliament after protests and revolution.
* 1918: The Ottoman empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending World War One in the Middle East.
* 1961: The Soviet Union tests a thermo-nuclear device - at 58 megatons the largest explosion ever recorded.

 

[HelenePA]

* 192: The Roman emperor Commodus, whose brutal reign ended 90 years of peaceful prosperity, is assassinated.
* 1600: British East India Company - which eventually ruled India - receives its charter from Elizabeth I.
* 1879: US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates 'incandescent lighting' - the electric lightbulb - in New Jersey.

 

[Danauk]

1789: The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille prison during a popular uprising in Paris.
1933: Nazi Germany legalises forced sterilisation to prevent 'hereditarily diseased offspring'.
1969: The 'Football War' breaks out between Honduras and El Salvador after a World Cup match in San Salvador.

I knew about the Bastille Day connection. I should have been French so I could have a national holiday on my birthday every year!

 

[Chicago526]

Cool, of course it focuses on British history, but that's okay.

1679: The Habaeus Corpus Amendment Act requires the showing of 'just cause' for imprisonment over 24 hours.

1868: The last public execution in Britain - the hanging of murderer Michael Barrett - takes place at Newgate.

1948: The Afrikaner National Party wins the South African general election and introduces 'apartheid'.

 

[Pooh67_68]

1916: Executions of the ringleaders of the Easter Rising begin, swinging public opinion against British rule.

1926: The only General Strike in British history begins over fears of pay cuts and increased working hours.

1951: George VI opens the 'Festival of Britain' on London's South Bank on the centenary of the Great Exhibition.

 

[suejai]

- 1775: The American War of Independence begins with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The British win both.

- 1949: The Republic of Ireland comes into being, but the six counties of Northern Ireland remain part of Britain.

- 1986: South Africa repeals the 'pass laws' restricting the movements of non-whites, enforced since 1948.

interesting website

 

[hellokitty86]

1940: The US advises its citizens to leave the Far East, despite not yet being at war with Japan.

1973: Britain's first commercial radio station, LBC, goes on air, breaking the BBC's 50-year radio monopoly.

1990: Britain joins the Exchange Rate Mechanism, designed as a first step to European monetary union.

 

[cltk78]

* 1667: A Dutch fleet raids Chatham Dockyard, Medway, taking the royal barge and humiliating the Royal Navy.
* 1701: The Act of Settlement ensures a Protestant succession in England by passing the throne to Hanover.
* 1964: Nelson Mandela, leader of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, is jailed for life for sabotage.

 

[Piglet4Ever]

1832: The Great Reform Act redistributes parliamentary seats, giving due weight to Britain's industrial cities.

1913: Suffragette Emily Davison dies after throwing herself in front of the king's horse at the Epsom Derby.

1944: The US Fifth Army reaches central Rome, making it the first Axis capital to fall. A formal procession takes place the next day.

 

[Magix]

1776: Britain's thirteen North American colonies make a public declaration of independence.

1884: France gives the United States the Statue of Liberty to mark 100 years of American independence.

1946: In the worst post-war pogrom, 42 returning Jewish survivors of Nazi genocide are killed in Kielce, Poland.

 

[DarthKTrava]

1190: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowns while crossing a river on a crusade to the Holy Land.
1942: The Czech town of Lidice is 'liquidated' in reprisal for the killing of Nazi chief Reinhard Heydrich.
1999: Nato suspends its 11-week air campaign against Serb forces as they begin to withdraw from Kosovo.

 

[SCHBR'smom]

1014: Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, is killed defeating the Vikings at Clontarf, destroying Irish unity.
1838: Brunel's 'Great Western' and 'Sirius' become the first ships to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
1984: The discovery of the HIV virus is announced by the US government in Washington.

 

[clh2]

My DD's birthday is April 14.

This is, of course, the night that Abraham Lincoln was shot - although he did not die until April 15th.

And, the Titanic hit the iceburg late the night of April 14, but did not sink until the wee hours of April 15th.

 

[1stluvispooh]

We lost at Bunkerhill and Watergate started! God I'm depressed!

 

[Aisling]

In American history, a monkey was sent into space.

 

[StitchfansJr]

* 1789: The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille prison during a popular uprising in Paris.
* 1933: Nazi Germany legalises forced sterilisation to prevent 'hereditarily diseased offspring'.
* 1969: The 'Football War' breaks out between Honduras and El Salvador after a World Cup match in San Salvador.

 

[Breezie]

* 1815: Switzerland's 'perpetual neutrality' is guaranteed by the Congress of Vienna.
* 1933: The first Nazi concentration camp is completed at Dachau, near Munich.
* 2003: 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', the invasion of Iraq by US and British forces, begins with airstrikes.

I already knew the last one. I'm reminded, on every birthday since, that the war began on March 20th. It's a tad depressing.

 

[KitKat_Tink]

1915: Germany starts a U-boat blockade of Britain in retaliation for the Royal Navy's blockade of German ports.
1968: British Standard Time is introduced, bringing British time in line with Europe. It is abandoned in 1971.
2005: A law banning the hunting of wild mammals with dogs comes into effect in England and Wales.

 

[alexandria674]

1403: Henry IV defeats Henry Percy ('Hotspur'), a rebel and ally of Owain Glyndwr, at the Battle of Shrewsbury.
1588: The Armada - an invasion fleet sent by Philip II of Spain - is sighted off the coast of Cornwall.
1969: US astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon, stepping down from Apollo 11

 

[TheGoofster]

From the web site:

* 1854: Britain and France join the Ottoman empire in the Crimean War against Russia, to halt Russian expansion.
* 1930: Constantinople is renamed Istanbul as part of Kemal Atatürk's campaign to create a secular Turkey.
* 1939: Madrid surrenders to Franco, ending the Spanish Civil War. His Falange Party will rule until 1975.

But apart from that, on the day I was born President Eisenhower died (March 28th, 1969).