What happened on your birthday?

[Clone v.117]

A war ended/permanent ceasefire, can't remember what war it was though. EDIT: the day I was born (as in the actual day, when I came out of my mommas front bum) it was the Lebanon war that ended.
Also it's the 117th day of the year B)

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[jarelash]

I accidentaly put salt in my breakfast instead of sugar...

[Christopher P.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_13th
Waitwaitwaitwait...
1981 – Claire Dames, American research actress
wut.

[kegeshan]

March 24, the 83^rd (or 84^th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, and the 365^th and last day of the year in the Julian calendar.

Events:

1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1765 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

Births:

1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
1911 – Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)

Deaths:

1455 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
1603 – Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
1905 – Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)

[Night Fox]

1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

wow. hm.

[Freek]

1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
1912 – Alaska becomes a United States territory.
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet.

1914 – Franz Ferdinand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnjZXrOgvzg ?

[AgentPikmin]

2001 - WTC collapses

[K1ng_0f_N0thing]

I know Dale Earnheardt died on my birthday in 2001 ;(

Here's what I learned:
2004 – Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.

Also:
2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

And:
1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.