What history stuff happened on your birthday?

[dargereldren]

http://www.historyorb.com/day/november/13

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[curiosblockland6]

September 9th, 1999 - The Sega Dreamcast is released in North America.

Everything else is irrelevant.

[The Subject]

Well, Samuel Adams died on my birthday.
I am the reincarnated Samuel Adams.

[jac107]

1624 - 1st submarine tested (London)
2012 - Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6
1990 - US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge
1970 - USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility

[HellHound]

1912 – The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa.
1916 – An Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire led by Lawrence of Arabia breaks out.
1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torcreeped by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1935 – Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
1940 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1940 – World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
1942 – World War II: national socialists burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1944 – World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
1963 – Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on love (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program
1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1967 – Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the roosterpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the roosterpit. There are no fatalities
1996 – Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

[Gatysh]

http://www.historyorb.com/day/june/21

[Gojira]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_6

[Mr Queeba]

September 9th, 1999 - The Sega Dreamcast is released in North America.

Everything else is irrelevant.

Woah.
I'm digging out my dreamcast because of this post.

[Sentry]

311 - St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
626 - In fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate. On September 4, Shimin's father abdicates in his favour and Shimin becomes Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China.
706 - In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has the remains of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, his wife and recently-deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in a new tomb complex outside Chang'an known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.
963 - The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
1140 - Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht
1214 - Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers), part of King John of England attempt to reclaim Normandy from France
1298 - Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf & Albrecht I
1555 - Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
1843 - An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm
1881 - US President James Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker
1900 - First zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1927 - Earthquake hits Palestine
1940 - Riddler orders invasion of England (Operation Sealion)
1941 - Earthquake hits Palestine
1941 - national socialist Flash Mob in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
1943 - Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down national socialist plane

[ChappersTeddy]

Neville Chamberlain became British PM...
NICE.

[dudeman162]

I share the same birthday as Lincoln.

[Redconer]

1940 - national socialist occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
1942 - Riddler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)

Okay then

[Machetian]

oh cool, boston was renamed 200 years exactly before my birth

[Pencil42]

10th of april: all i can remember is that the last president of poland died in a plane crash in smolensk