Famous Events that Happened on Your Birthday

The year officially starts over on my birthday, that's pretty big.

Plus the NAFTA was effective on this day in 1992. (that's all I got)
 
1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
1908 – Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1983 – Michael Jackson's Thriller music video is released.
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i share my birthday with britney spears, nelly furtado, and julie harris, among other people.
 
February 5 1993– Belgium becomes a federal state rather than a kingdom.

Boooooring
 
Well, being Pakistani, having your birthday on Aug 14th is something. Since thats the day Pakistan gained Independence.

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1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_14th
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OMG. We have the same birthday.
 
I'm not like looking it up, way too lazy.
But David Hasselhoff and I share a birthday... which is creepy and amusing at the same time. As for events, every time I've looked, there's never been anything cool or notable. I was born on a boring day.

I think Disneyland or Disney World was opened on that day, though. Just a different year.
 
Hmmm...
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363 – Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1689 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.
1784 – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
1824 – First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 – Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1848 – Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 – A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1894 – Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
1904 – Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation.
1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1940 – Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1942 – United States Navy Seabees established.
1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 – Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1949 – The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1953 – Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died at age 73.
1958 – The Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit.
1960 – The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1973 – Donald DeFreeze, the future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios 2 all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 – Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1982 – Venera 14, a Soviet satellite, arrives at the planet Venus.
1984 – 6,000 Miners in the United Kingdom begin their historic strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1988 – Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1991 – big uprising started in ranye town in as sulimanye parizgiraq,therefore de facto independesy for kurds in iraq.
1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2001 – In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
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Wow...
 
17th January

2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.

^ Only thing that interested me.
 
Not too much interesting stuff, but in 1964, the Beatles had their first concert, also in 1964, Sarah Palin was born, and in 1992, Taylor Lautner was born. Of course, this is all before I was born.
 
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1930- Clint Eastwood was born
1938- Fatso John Prescott was born
2009- Danny LaRue died
 
My birthday was also the birthday of Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor, whose birth date was in 1493. Think about it.
1493.
I am a true Arceus fan...
 
August 13. There are a lot of events, but I only left in the ones that interested me.

3114 BC – According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Maya calendar.

1521 – Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.

1792 – Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.

1889 – German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"

1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.

1920 – Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.

1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain begins – the Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations.

1969 - The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they're awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Richard Nixon.

But above all...
INTERNATIONAL LEFTHANDERS DAY
I FEEL CHEATED.
...
NEXT. YEAR.
 
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