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

[nolly.livejournal.com]

9/27 -- some of them could be good or bad, depending on who's side you were on, so I'm going for less ambiguos ones:

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.