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Dont know?
Go to http://www.wikipedia.org and enter your birthday (IE: the day and month) and post the interesting bits.
Please not all of it, they are usually rather lengthy...

Cool stuff for me

25th of March.

Events

1300 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy.

1807: Slave trade in England abolished by the British Parliament

Several Pope's are Consecrated on this day, most notably; 708 - Constantine.

Birthdays.

1947 - Sir Elton John, English musician


I was born on the 687th aniverary of Dante entering Hell it seems.

2001 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online.

Hehe, that's a cool co-incidence.

My birthday is 15th January

Famous birthdays:

Marie LaFarge, convicted murderer

Martin Luther King Jr

March 12.

Some of my favorite events:

1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time

1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts in the US) are founded in the US. (Extra special for me because I am a Girl Scout. =3)

1994 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests.


Births:

1946 - Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress

Deaths:

1945 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
1947 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (b. 1871)

January 28

1547 - Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland
1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast
1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes just after takeoff killing all seven astronauts onboard.

Births
1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1582 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621)
1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter

Deaths

1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger:
Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939)
Michael J. Smith (b. 1945)
Judith Resnik (b. 1949)
Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946)
Ronald McNair (b. 1950)
Greg Jarvis (b. 1944)
Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948) She is my hero...
2005 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973)

-sigh- Challenger...Christa McAuliffe is my hero,she (was) awesome...

Oh my god. I just did something like this for research on my French project...

But I'm too lazy to browse through and read everything. XD

23rd November

1991 - Queen frontman Freddie Mercury publicly announces that he has AIDS. Freddie dies peacefully the next day.



Births:-
1860 - Billy the Kid, American bandit (d. 1881)
1888 - Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
1944 - Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and writer
1944 - James Toback, American writer and director
1945 - Steve Landesberg, American actor
1954 - Bruce Hornsby, American musician
1955 - Steven Brust, American author
1955 - Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist

Deaths:-
1457 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)
1947 - Lawrence Gowan Canadian pianist, singer, and songwriter
1990 - Roald Dahl, Welsh author (b. 1916) (Whoa, didn't know that...)

Interesting, very interesting...

Nothing interesting for me....

There WAS a walkout at school on my birthday last year, though....

Hey, that's my birthday too!

My birthday was on October 15th and I got nothing from my parents =ooo

I got a purtty wallet from my best friend.. and a froggy keychain from her too.. that's about it.

August 4

Events

1753 - George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry.
1892 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1902 - Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1914 - World War I: Germany invaded Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality.
1944 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1985 - In one of the most exciting days in sports, Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox won his 300th game and Rod Carew of the California Angels picked up his 3000th hit. It marked the only day in which two men reached baseball's three biggest milestones in the same day.
2005 - Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first black — Governor General.

Births
1521 - Pope Urban VII, (d. 1590)
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
1910 - William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)
1921 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)---YAY
1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestine leader (d. 2004)
1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1962 - Roger Clemens, baseball player
1970 - Michael DeLuise, American actor
1971 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
1972 - Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor

Deaths
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)

Holidays and observances
Roman Catholicism - Saint John Vianney – Patron Saint of Priests
Burkina Faso - Anniversary of the Revolution
Cook Islands - Constitution Day (celebrations begin on the last Friday in July and last up to 2 weeks.)
El Salvador - Transfiguration Bank Holiday
Ancient Egypt - Jubilation of the Heart of Re

Events

793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known

1405 - First execution in England of a Bishop (Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York) by a King (Henry IV)

1783 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.

1953 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.

1999 - War on Drugs: The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product.

2004 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium.

Births

1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)

1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer

1955 - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, English inventor of the World Wide Web

Deaths
1795 - King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)

Well, it seems lots of random stuff happened on my birthday (8th June), not as much as my bro's though (11th Sept)

the mst enteresting is that the Scientists discover 10th planet this year... July 29...

June 1st

Events-

1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the United States.

1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the United States.

1813 - The United States Navy gains its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, 'Don't give up the ship'.

1935 - First driving tests introduced in Britain.

1954 - The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time.

Births-

1801 - Brigham Young, Mormon church leader and American western settler (d. 1877)

1926 - Andy Griffith, American actor

Deaths -

1846 - Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)

1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)

Hehe! Linus and his blanket. ^_^

Nothing interesting on November 28th, except the Battle of Cane Hill in the Civil War. Didn't know about that one.

They killed Guy Fawkes on my birthday

Justin Timberlake shares my birthday and so does Jackie Robinson


That's about all that I found interesting.