May the candles on your cake...

[gridlore]

A post in 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?

Comments

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Oooh. On what would be my birthday in 1883 - American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times. Nifty.

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