On This Date In History
My husband was born on April 15. In case you're wondering, this is not a good day to have a birthday. When you're young, your dad is upset from filing his taxes and writing a big check. When you're older, you're the one writing the big check. And maybe your wife spends the whole day working on taxes instead of baking you a cake (sorry!).
We were talking this weekend about other things that happened on the date of his birth, such as that the Titanic hitting an iceberg. We were with a friend who was born on September 11. In addition to the unpleasant events of 2001, we discovered two other interesting tidbits about things that happened on that same date:
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1941 – Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
Interesting, no?
What about you? Any great moments in history that share your date of birth? I have Columbus setting sail in 1492 and that's about it.
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Jun '10
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Israel Pickholtz
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He didn't talk about any of this until I raised it. He also didn't mention that had the Pirates won, he would likely have been Series MVP (he won games 1 and 4).
But the Pirates did win! (It's the only World series with an MVP from the losing team.) · 41 minutes ago
Duh! Chock it up to pre-dementia.
Can I have a do-over in this thread? First I miss Mazeroski, then I get the team wrong.
I did really play golf with Vern and he did tell me the story.
Edited on April 17, 2012 at 10:35pmJul '10
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I hear he did well in the basketball game, too.
*rimshot*
Apr '11
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Thanks for the link. I will be 3000 weeks old on 12/27/19! only 401 weeks from now.
James Of England: ... I prefer weeks of age as a party excuse.
For instance, I'm currently 1798 weeks old; ...
There's a good calculator here.
Apr '11
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Aquozha: Thanks for the link. I will be 3000 weeks old on 12/27/19! only 401 weeks from now.
James Of England: ... I prefer weeks of age as a party excuse.
For instance, I'm currently 1798 weeks old; ...
There's a good calculator here.
1 hour ago
I hope you have a great 50th!
One of my favorite parties ever was for my 10,000th day, ie, 27 and a bit years old. There's a lot of fun you can have with it that doesn't involve exploring history. Once you're out of your 30s, the weeks stop working for history, but months still work pretty well. For this month, for instance, you could celebrate Taliesin, who died in 599, if you're into Welsh poetry. 600 is the "evangelization of Britain" although this isn't really true (the Gregory/ Augustine effort mostly failed; England was evangelized North to South, with the North converting earlier). The codification of Gregorian chant is nice, too, though.
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January 17th:
Birthdays:
1706: Benjamin Franklin
1942: Muhammad Ali
1971: Kid Rock
Events:
1757: "German Diet" declares war on Prussia, resulting in a generation of skinny Prussians.
1861: The Flush toilet was patented by Thomas Crapper (honest).
After that one,...really, the rest is a wash.
May '10
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January 16th for me. Sure, some guy called Superman hit the public eye on that day back in 1939, but I'm happier to be just one day shy of Dave.
I was this close to being my generation's Mark Twain.
Apr '11
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My two biggies (March 5) are the Boston Massacre (1770) and the death of Josef Stalin (1953).
I didn't even have to Wikipedia it! :-)
My sister's birthday is March 16. As a kid I was always jealous that she shared a birthday with Erik Estrada.
Feb '12
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March 15th, "Beware the Ides of March". I've always enjoyed that tie-in, with my birth date. And if I'm not wrong. It was Tax Day before it was moved to April,
May '11
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Born on Fathers Day, June 18
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom.
Apr '11
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My birthday is April 9th, so I always honor Lee's surrender at Appomattox - not just for the end of the Civil War, but for the gracious meeting between Grant and Lee that set the tone for a lasting peace.
Folk singer Phil Ochs sadly hung himself on the actual day I was born.
And, I have fond memories of watching the fall of Bagdad on TV on the morning of my birthday in 2003.
Been a while since I researched my birthday, and thanks to Wikipedia I've found a bunch of interesting stuff:
Seward's Folly (our purchase of Alaska) was ratified!
"the oldest known recording of the audible human voice," was recorded!
And, the deaths of Francis Bacon, Zip the Pinhead and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Feb '12
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My birthday is Nov. 4. A date shared by two disasters.