Anything weird happen on your birthday?

[Archae]

Either the exact day or some other year?

I found out that exactly 100 years before I was born, John Brown was executed.
Same day. Just 100 years earlier.

[Kali]

1. no but my youngest son was born at home

here on the ranch - exactly 50 years after the last family member to be born in the house.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Archae!

I'm not sure this qualifies, but every now and then, Thanksgiving coincides with my birthday! I love having pumpkin pie w/a candle in it!


:toast:

[Archae]

3. That sounds good.

Good tasting, that is! :9

[Kali]

4. ha, that happens to my father too!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Good for him!

I'm guessing he was born in a different year than I was, though...

:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. I don't think it's weird what happens, but most find it obscene. Some grotesque.

And many a protester has called it an abomination.

[Curmudgeoness]

7. Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires

At least that is what happened in 1833 on my birthday, if I believe the site

http://www.brainyhistory.com/events.html

Many fun things happened on my birthday! 1973-Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1884-Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and Vice President
1932-Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables

This is fun.

[rurallib]

18. Hey thanks - there is some good stuff here

Good idea:
1931 Round-robin playoff among New York City's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants and Yankees
(maybe we should do that today?)

1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
(Must've been bad law)

366 Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope (has benedict been around that long?)
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This site is a hoot.

[RockaFowler]

32. Thaks for the site

I found a few interesting ones on July 19th:

1984 Geraldine Ferraro, Representative-D-New York 1979 - 1985, wins Democratic Vice Presidential nomination

1986 Caroline Kennedy (28) marries Edwin Schlossberg (41)

1996 XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta, Georgia

1910 Cy Young registers his 500th career victory

[rurallib]

8. jeez, that was depressing. I googled and googled

is "Nothing happened on ______________"
I know my dad went to a football game instead of the hospital.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear rurallib...

What an appalling thing for your dad to do...

And to find nothing on Google? Damn.

Perhaps your birthday was a quiet, happy day for our world...

:hug:

[Curmudgeoness]

12. Check the site I posted on #7. Something surely happened

on your birthday.

[frogmarch]

10. not really weird, but

one of my 6x great-grandfathers and I share a birthday, only he was born exactly 400 years before I was.

[kentauros]

11. Harvard College seems to like my birthday:

1639 – Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.


Maybe I should have gone to Harvard instead...

Louis Winthorpe III: He was wearing my Harvard tie. Can you believe it? My Harvard tie. Like, oh sure, he went to Harvard.

:D

[HipChick]

13. I was a planned home birth..

Born at home...apparently I didn't cry much,yawned and went back to sleep..

[femmocrat]

14. 1776-- George Washington's army crossed the Delaware River.

:) Cool question!

BTW, I share a birthday with Jim Morrison (different year, though)!

[rug]

15. Lincoln died and the Titanic sank.

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. In a remarkable (and I realize credibility-stretching) coincidence, the VERY day that I was born...

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[JohnnyLib2]

17. FDR died

:cry:

[hobbit709]

19. Define weird

[Taverner]

20. I almost died on 4 of them

1979 - Asthma attack that almost seals my lungs shut

1984 - Asthma attack that makes me feel like crap

1992 - Mono - throat almost sealed shut. Prednisone helped it not.

2010 - (it's been a long time baby!) Sick with H1N1. Yay!

[havocmom]

21. besides accidently sitting on my cake?

I got nuttin.
Actually, I share my birthday with one of my all time great heroes. Different year. And One of my favorite underrated actors was born on same day, same year and everything. He is aging better. x(

[WolverineDG]

22. Patty Hearst got kidnapped. nt

[UrbScotty]

23. The stock market rebounded from its crash earlier in the week (October 19/21, 1987)

[sakabatou]

24. In 1992, the NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history

[mitchum]

25. 1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness...

1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins
1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declare martial law in Ireland
1945 – The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy
1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated
2005 – 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.

April 25

[Manifestor_of_Light]

26. Beethoven died.

And I am 15 years younger than Nancy Pelosi.
I have the same BD as she does, Leonard Nimoy and Sandra Day O'Connor & Erica Jong.

That's all I got. :shrug:

[Call Me Wesley]

27. Hitler and Braun comitted suicide. :) (nt)

[Crystal Clarity]

28. Gemini 7 was launched

Same day, same year. Not sure that the event could be defined as being 'weird' however. Otherwise :boring: as far as I know.

[whistler162]

29. Well besides Nixon and some guy from Hawaii

being elected. The Iranian hostage crisis started.

[Blue_Tires]

30. not really obscure news, but that whole "9/11" thing was pretty weird

and continues to be today...

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

31. Not weird by my family's standards

Dad dropped mom at the hospital and went to his girlfriend's house. First birthday my aunt committed suicide.

[TZ]

33. exactly one month after I was born

We landed on the moon (July 20,1969). I have a commemorative moon landing coin in a safety deposit box somewhere.....