May the candles on your cake...
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customers_suck about people being jerks about a birthday celebration led to a long list of comments about the horrible things that happened on birthdays. A link was given to Wikipedia's date entries (and as an aside, I am loving Wiki more and more..)
So, why can't I celebrate my birthday anymore?
1187 - Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, at the Battle of Hattin.
1712 - 12 slaves are executed in New York for starting an uprising that killed 9 whites
1918 - Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family
1941 - Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers, committed by Nazi Germans in captured Polish city of Lwów.
1998 - Lin "Spit" Newborn and Daniel Shersty are murdered by neonazis in the desert just outside Las Vegas.
2002 - A Prestige Airlines cargo Boeing 707 crashes just short of the runway in Bangui, Central African Republic killing 25
So, what awful things happened on your birthday?
customers_suck about people being jerks about a birthday celebration led to a long list of comments about the horrible things that happened on birthdays. A link was given to Wikipedia's date entries (and as an aside, I am loving Wiki more and more..)So, why can't I celebrate my birthday anymore?
1187 - Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, at the Battle of Hattin.
1712 - 12 slaves are executed in New York for starting an uprising that killed 9 whites
1918 - Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family
1941 - Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers, committed by Nazi Germans in captured Polish city of Lwów.
1998 - Lin "Spit" Newborn and Daniel Shersty are murdered by neonazis in the desert just outside Las Vegas.
2002 - A Prestige Airlines cargo Boeing 707 crashes just short of the runway in Bangui, Central African Republic killing 25
So, what awful things happened on your birthday?
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Date: 13 Mar 2006 20:17 (UTC)1979 - Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Dr S C Mundawarara. [I put this one in because of the way that Robert Mugabe has acted since independence]
1987 - The passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing 1,565.
1988 - A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, killing 270.
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Date: 13 Mar 2006 20:37 (UTC)1836 - The Siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1887 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
1898 - Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
1900 - In South Africa the Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
1945 - World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.
1947 - International Organization for Standardization(ISO) is founded. (Dude, have you ever had to WRITE to their standards?)
1958 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
1966 - A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government.
1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States. (I hate DST)
1997 - A large fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir.
1998 - Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
1999 - An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
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Date: 13 Mar 2006 21:05 (UTC)no subject
Date: 15 Mar 2006 17:51 (UTC)no subject
Date: 13 Mar 2006 21:51 (UTC)Double Ooh. 1865 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
Weird.
326 - The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
and
1626 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
Oh shit! The Jonestown massacre happened on my seventh birthday.
Jim Jones took away my birthday!
Gessi
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Date: 13 Mar 2006 22:11 (UTC)1854 - The steamship Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
1903 - Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
1959 - Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshu as the result of a typhoon.
1977 - The 300 metre tall CKVR-TV transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
1985 - Hurricane Gloria hits Long Island, New York.
1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
1997 - Communications are lost with the Mars Pathfinder for unknown reasons.
September 5
Date: 13 Mar 2006 22:14 (UTC)1969 - My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
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Date: 13 Mar 2006 22:23 (UTC)Do I win?
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Date: 13 Mar 2006 22:45 (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Mar 2006 02:04 (UTC)no subject
Date: 13 Mar 2006 23:52 (UTC)1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
1813 - Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
1862 - American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of
711 - K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of the Maya city of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.
1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
1813 - Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
1862 - American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run
1918 - Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")
1941 - Siege of Leningrad begins.
1942 - World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball
1974 - A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
2002 - The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas, ceases to operate.
2005 - The 17th Street Canal in New Orleans is breached during Hurricane Katrina, leading to massive flooding and destruction.
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Date: 14 Mar 2006 06:47 (UTC)1789 - Mutiny on the Bounty: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester – A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
1905 - Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's classic film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).
1940 - World War II: Paris falls under German occupation.
1940 - A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1941 - Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians begun.
1959 - A group of left-leaning Dominican exiles in Cuba landed in the Dominican Republic with the intent of assassinating Trujillo. They would later be known as the J14 or "Catorce de Junio" (14th of June) group.
1962 - Anna Slesersby becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler.
1964 - In Pretoria, South Africa, black leader Nelson Mandela is among eight activists to be sentenced to life imprisonment for acts of sabotage. Mandela is sent to the notorious Robben Island - 7 miles from Cape Town on the South African coast.
1976 - The Gong Show debuts on NBC.
1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.
2002 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Date: 14 Mar 2006 06:48 (UTC)no subject
Date: 15 Mar 2006 03:05 (UTC)August 5,1962 -- Marilyn Monroe dies.
(I was born August 5th,1962. I've lived in Monroe, Ct. all my life. Next case of weird, please.....)
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Date: 15 Mar 2006 17:56 (UTC)