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

[nilita.livejournal.com]

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
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.