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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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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.