what happened on your birthday

[News]

dunno if this belongs in forum games
go to wikipedia and type in your birthday, without the year (or go ahead i don't care)
you should be greeted by a list of events
pick the most interesting one

[Ad Bot]

[Space1255]

April 3: Panama Papers Leak

[Eon]

oh ok

[Red Spy]

January 20th: FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2007

[NotBomberguy]

a lot of stuff happened on my birthday apparently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2016_June_22

[Willymcmilly]

this right here

[e-maxx]

1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.

[Masterlegodude]

2014 – 11 people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
2014 – 22 people die after two boats carrying illegal immigrants collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.

May 2014 was a bad time for boats

[gebenuwell]

[Gytyyhgfffff]

the biggest new years party in the 20th century was started on my birthday

[Freek]

79 – Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel.
1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
1944 – World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
1995 – Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.

[cooolguy32]

holy stuff.

[Timestamp]

[Alteration]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_10

Notable events:

1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1814 – Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to retract his plea.
1977 – Rings of Urstar fish: Astronomers discover rings around Urstar fish.
2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

Births:

1928 – James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1998)
1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor, producer, and martial artist
1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda (d. 2011)
1972 – Timbaland, American rapper and producer
1977 – Robin Thicke, American singer-songwriter and producer,
1983 – Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
1999 – Alteration, koolest dood ever

It's also Harriet Tubman day.

[Jshotgun]

1918 – In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
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