Wikipedia seems to have articles for pretty much everything. These are the results for my birthday, which is on August 2. (anyone else here have the same birthday?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2



- W00h00!!!1



Who/what is connected to your birthday?

November 10

1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy .

1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ended with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

1997 - Telcoms WorldCom and MCI announce a US$37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history).

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1977 - Brittany Murphy, actress

* 747 BC - Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
* 1266 - Battle of Benevento: French forces, under Charles of Anjou, overcome a combined German-Sicilian force.
* 1797 - The Bank of England issues the first one pound note.
* 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
* 1848 - The second French Republic is proclaimed.
* 1848 - Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto.
* 1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the National Currency Act into law.
* 1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway is opened.
* 1919 - An act of the United States Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
* 1929 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.
* 1935 - The Luftwaffe is reformed.
* 1935 - Robert Watson-Watt gives the first public demonstration of RADAR.
* 1936 - In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
* 1944 - Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
* 1952 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.
* 1966 - Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
* 1970 - National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation.
* 1986 - After exiled President Ferdinand Marcos leaves the Philippines, Corazon Aquino is inaugurated president.
* 1986 - Robert Penn Warren is named poet laureate of the United States.
* 1987 - Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes American President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
* 1990 - The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
* 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.
* 1991 - Gulf War: On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
* 1993 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
* 1995 - United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings PLC collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, lost $1.4 billion by gambling on the Singapore Monetary Exchange Simex with derivative securities.
* 2001 - The Taliban destroyed two giant buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
* 2004 - The United States lifted a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.


feb 26

edit - fats domino was born on feb 26, so was johnny cash, bill hicks also died on this date

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_6

I share a birthday with Don King. Oh...joy is me...

Aug 14th:

Events

* 1040 - Assassination of King Duncan of Scotland by Macbeth.
* 1880 - Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed
* 1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration
* 1896 - Gold discovered in the Yukon, leading to the Klondike Gold Rush
* 1901 - First powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
* 1908 - First Beauty Contest held in Folkestone, England
* 1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the US-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier
* 1935 - Social Security Act passed, creating a government pension system for the retired
* 1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims
* 2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
* 2004 - Sales tax holiday in Massachusetts. All sales taxes are suspended on purchases of $2500.00 or less.

Births

* 1740 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
* 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
* 1941 - David Crosby, guitarist, songwriter
* 1945 - Steve Martin, comedian, actor
* 1950 - Gary Larson, cartoonist
* 1953 - James Horner, Academy Award-winning composer
* 1956 - Rusty Wallace, NASCAR driver
* 1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, Academy Award-winning actress
* 1959 - Earvin "Magic" Johnson, basketball player
* 1960 - Sarah Brightman, singer
* 1961 - Susan Olsen, actress, The Brady Bunch
* 1966 - Halle Berry, Academy Award-winning actress

August 1

1774 - The obscure element known as "Oxygen" was discovered
1776 - A relatively unknown document is officially signed (if you can't figure it out, I'm talking about the Declaration of Independence)

Some other unimportant stuff happened too; these two were the most interesting ones I could find.

Edit: Oh, and apparently it's a Rastafarian holiday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_12

Not much that's interesting.

booker t (not the wrestler) and neil young born on your birthday...

robert scotts body was found too... top notch day.

1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis
2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP

It's a conspiracy


Births

1825 - Johann Strauss II, composer
1881 - Pablo Picasso, painter, sculptor
1959 - Nancy Cartwright, voice actress

Deaths

1920 - Alexander I, King of the Hellenes, of sepsis (after being bitten by a pet monkey)
1974 - Nick Drake, musician

There's heaps more, I just chose the best ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_4
I didn't know I had the same birthday as Paul Harvey O_o

Editing out most of it, I'm left with:

1936 - 1936 Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympics.
1944 - The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey the Bear for the first time. [*pumps fist in air*]
1945 - World War II: An atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" is detonated over the city of Nagasaki, Japan at 11:02 AM (local time) with an equivalent force of 22,000 tons of TNT. An estimated 60,000-80,000 are killed and more 60,000 injured. (yay... born on the 40th anniversary of it too. Lot's of doves were simultaneously released at Nagasaki.)
1969 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder five people including Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring and, Abigail Folger. (Joy... another lowpoint in human behaviour.)
1974 - Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office, an action reportedly taken to prevent time from being wasted in impeachment proceedings in response to his role in the Watergate scandal. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, takes the oath of office and becomes the 38th president. (I am not a crook)


Births
1896 - Jean Piaget, child psychologist (d. 1980)
1914 - Tove Jansson, author of the Moomin books (d. 2001)
1968 - Gillian Anderson, actress
1968 - Eric Bana, actor
1976 - Rhona Mitra, actress (The Practice)
1978 - Audrey Tautou, actress (*kaching*)


Deaths
117 - Trajan, Roman emperor
1969 - Sharon Tate, actress
1995 - Jerry Garcia, guitarist: Grateful Dead
2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist and peace activist
2003 - Gregory Hines, actor, tap dancer (b. 1946)


Holidays and observances
Singapore: National Day (8 and 9 are lucky numbers in Singapore) [/b]

I knew of the Nagasaki Bombing and the the Manson murders beforehand.

Somthing must be wrong...the site says this...

2006 - Jereiaki takes over the world useing a rubber band and a spoon.

I take over the world on my birthday?

Births:
1924 - James Bond, fictional character
1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, video game legend

May 13:
1950 - Stevie Wonder
Mother's Day - 2001, 2007, 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_23

THE UNIVERSE WAS CREATED

weird al was also born 10/23

wierd since i've been called "weird al's evil cousin" before

• 1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed.
  
• 1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
  
• 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers
  
• 1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded
  
• 1825 - Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil
  
• 1830 - Belgium revolts from the Netherlands
  
• 1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates The Great Moon Hoax
  
• 1875 - Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel
  
• 1910 - Yellow Cab is founded
  
• 1912 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded
  
• 1916 - United States National Park Service is created
  
• 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, started on August 13, now ends. The Red Army is defeated.
  
• 1942 - Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
  
• 1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies
  
• 1946 - Ben Hogan wins PGA Championship
  
• 1950 - President Harry Truman ordered the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
  
• 1960 - Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome
  
• 1975 - Bruce Springsteen releases Born to Run, the classic album that would launch him to superstardom.
  
• 1980 - Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix
  
• 1980 - The Broadway musical "42nd Street" opened; the show's director, Gower Champion, died earlier that day.
  
• 1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe
  
• 1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune.
  
• 1991 - Linus Torvalds first says in a post to the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he is working on a new free computer operating system.
  
• 2003 - the Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo, Northwest Territories
  
• 2003 - 52 killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.

Aug 25th.

November 22

EVENTS

* 1963 - JFK killed in Dallas
* 1989 - In west Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
* 2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.

and if that all isn't bad enough.....

* 2003 - England beat Australia to win Englands first rugby union world cup.

BIRTHS

# 1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, comedian, actor (d. 2004)
# 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
# 1961 - Mariel Hemingway, actress
# 1967 - Boris Becker, tennis player

...yay?

August 15th

1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, general and politician (d. 1821)

1877 - Thomas Edison makes the first-ever recording - "Mary Had a Little Lamb"

1914 - Panama Canal opens to traffic

1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II. w00t!!!

1961 - Construction begins on the Berlin Wall

1971 - President Richard Nixon ends convertibility of U.S. dollar into gold

1973 - Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends

1972 - Ben Affleck, actor

1974 - Natasha Henstridge, actress (Oh hell yes)

June 9

Events (the more interesting ones)

• 68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
• 1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
• 1930 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed at the Illinois Central train station during rush hour by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
• 1934 - Donald Duck debuts in The Wise Little Hen.
• 1944 - World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, since 1941 occupied by Finland.
• 1954 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army.
• 1959 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
• 1978 -The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the Mormon priesthood to "all worthy men,"ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
• 1986 - The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• - 1999 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

Births (The only two people I recognized)

• 1963 - Johnny Depp, actor
• 1981 - Natalie Portman, actress

October 19th

==Events==
*[[202 BC]] - [[Battle of Zama]], resulting in the defeat of [[Carthage]] and [[Hannibal]].
*[[439]] - The [[Vandals]], led by King [[Gaiseric]], take [[Carthage]] in [[North Africa]].
*[[1453]] - The French recapture of [[Bordeaux]] brings the [[Hundred Years War]] to a close, with the English retaining only [[Calais]] on French soil.
*[[1781]] - Major General Lord [[Charles Cornwallis]] surrendered to [[George Washington]] and [[Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau]] at [[Yorktown, Virginia]], ending the [[American Revolutionary War]].
*[[1812]] - [[Napoleon I of France]] retreats from [[Moscow]].
*[[1813]] - [[Battle of Leipzig]] concludes, giving [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] one of the worst defeats.
*[[1864]] - [[Battle of Cedar Creek]] - [[Union Army]] under [[Philip Sheridan]] destroys Confederate Army under [[Jubal Early]].
*1864 - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] raiders launch an attack on [[Saint Albans, Vermont]] from [[Canada]].
*[[1873]] - [[Yale University|Yale]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Columbia University|Columbia]] and [[Rutgers University|Rutgers]] universities draft the first code of [[American football]] rules.
*[[1912]] - [[Italy]] takes possession of [[Tripoli]], [[Libya]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]].
*[[1914]] - [[First Battle of Ypres]] began.
*[[1917]] - [[Love Field]] in [[Dallas, Texas]] is opened.
*[[1933]] - [[Germany]] withdraws from the [[League of Nations]].
*[[1943]] - [[Streptomycin]], the first [[antibiotic]] remedy for [[tuberculosis]], was first isolated by researchers at [[Rutgers University]].
*[[1944]] - [[United States]] forces land in the [[Philippines]].
*[[1954]] - First ascent of [[Cho Oyu]].
*[[1960]] - [[Mauretania]] gains independence from [[France]].
*[[1973]] - President [[Richard Nixon]] rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the [[Watergate]] tapes.
*[[1982]] - [[John De Lorean]] arrested for trafficking in [[cocaine]].
*[[1983]] - [[Maurice Bishop]], [[Prime Minister of Grenada|Prime Minister]] of [[Grenada]], is overthrown and executed in a military [[coup d'état]] led by [[Bernard Coard]].
*[[1985]] - The first [[Blockbuster Video]] store opened in [[Dallas, Texas]].
*[[1985]] - Matthew B. Parsons was born in Stockton, California in the United States of America.
*[[1986]] - [[Samora Machel]], President of [[Mozambique]] and a prominent leader of [[FRELIMO]], and 33 others died when their [[Tupolev 134]] plane crashed into the [[Lebombo Mountains]].
*[[1987]] - In retaliation for [[Iran|Iranian]] attacks on ships in the [[Persian Gulf]], the [[U.S. Navy]] disables three of Iran's offshore [[oil platform]]s.
*[[1987]] - ([[Black Monday]]) [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] falls by 22%.
*[[1989]] - [[Guildford Four]] convictions quashed by the [[Appellate court|Court of Appeal]] - they had spent 15 years in prison through a [[miscarriage of justice]].
*[[1991]] - [[Paul Glover]] bought a "[[samosa|samoza]]" at the Farmers' Market with Half HOUR #751 — the first use of [[Ithaca Hours]].
*[[2003]] - [[Mother Teresa]] was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]].
*[[2004]] - Myanmar Prime Minister [[Khin Nyunt]] was ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government for charges of corruption.
*[[2004]] - The [[WWE]] held the first ever fully [[interactive]] pay-per-view [[Taboo Tuesday]] in the [[Bradley Center]], in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]].

Events:
1863-The Battle of Gettysburg begins
1986 - In an interview with Playboy magazine, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke comes out as a bisexual.
Births:
1967 - Pamela Anderson
1977 - Liv Tyler, actress
1982 - Carmella DeCesare, American model who was Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 2004
???-Lucifer Becomes Satan.


I hope this isn't some kind of sign

Mikus was born, the world trembled.

Bah, I was about to say that Mikus. I was scrolling through the posts, and there were no posts of the sort. And then I hit YOURS. BAH!!!

EVERYONE STOP HAVING BIRTHDAYS NEAR MINE. All you early-august bastarbs. Jedi Legend, come show these fools when a REAL man has his birthday.

May 28 - Births

• 1968 - Kylie Minogue, actress and singer

Actress??? WTF???
She can barely sing let alone act.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_28

Events:
# 1945 - The United States Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance
# 1991 - Nine are crushed while a crowd pushes their way into a basketball game at City College of New York.
# 1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear version is released in Japan.

Births:
# 1969 - Linus Torvalds, programmer and initiator of Linux
# 1985 - Some jerk in New Jersey who later became a well-known Massassian.

That's the stuff that happened on my birthday that interested me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_15

2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation.

DUN DUN DUN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_20

Events - the "interesting" ones:
1792 - France declares war on Austria
1914 - Ludlow Massacre of striking Colorado coal miners
1967 - A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus killing 126
1968 - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa killing 122
1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon
1979 - President of the United States Of America, Jimmy Carter, is 'attacked' by a fluffy Rabbit
1998 - An Air France Boeing 727-200 crashes into mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53
1999 - Columbine High School massacre
2001 - The anti-globalization movement holds a People's Summit and large protest marches, some of which are forcibly put down by police, against the FTAA summit in Quebec City, Quebec

Births: - the cool ones:
1808 - Emperor Napoleon III of France
1889 - Adolf Hitler
1925 - Tito Puente
1951 - Luther Vandross
1961 - Don Mattingly
1976 - Joey Lawrence

Holidays
In Canada and the United States, April 20th is a ceremonial day to "smoke up."

Man, with all the planes crashes, masacres, and with Hitler being born on my birthday, I wonder what will become of me later on.

11th of April.

Lots of random and insignificant things happened on my birthday.

Whoah! You had a lot of Pope's die on you birthday - I counted 4: Saint Pope Sixtus II, Saint Pope Hormisdas, Pope Callixtus III, & Pope Paul VI!

I bet you went back in time and murdered them all[/conspiracy theory]

>.>
<.<

Awesome! I knew I shared my birthday with Robert De Niro (1943), but I didn't know I shared it with Theirry Henry (1977) as well!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_9


Happy Motherday 2004!!!!!

September 4th

July 29th

Interesting events:
1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated after a memory upgrade. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
1948 - After a hiatus of 12 years due to World War II, the first Summer Olympics opened in London, United Kingdom.
1954 - The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings, is published in the UK.
1958 - The United States Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.

Interesting births:
1871 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian spiritualist (d. 1916)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1938 - Peter Jennings, television news anchor
1972 - Wil Wheaton, actor (Stand By Me, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1974 - Steve-O, musician, actor (Jackass)

November 20
tl;dr version of my birthday

I have the same b-day as Robert Byrd (D-WV), the late Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin Hubble (Hubble's Law and the telescope), and others

Queen Alexandra of the U.K. died on 20 November 1925.

And nothing really exciting happened on that day throughout history except for the cuban missle crisis ending, U.S. DoJ files suit against AT&T (which leads to breakup), oh yeah and Jacko is arrested for charges of child molestation.

So nothing exciting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1
1985

I was born and my Granddad noted that I was born on the exact same day as the Germans attacked Poland in 1939.

/Edward

Most interesting stuff:
1919 - Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
1941 - World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Paveliæ's Ustase fascist insurgents in power.
1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.
1988 - The comic strip Fox Trot débuts. (WOOO!!)