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What happened on your birthday?
on mine...Alexander the Great died...
birth DAY NOT year...
if you need help..go to wikipedia.org and type in your birthday in the search engine..
13 Answers
- Sweet DreamsLv 61 decade ago
Holidays and observances
Christianity (except Eastern and Oriental Orthodox who follow the Julian Calendar) - Epiphany of the Lord (a.k.a. "Twelfth Day of Christmas" and Three Kings Day in some areas).
Epiphany (National Holiday) in Italy
In the Irish Calendar- Little Christmas or Nollaig na mBan (Women's Christmas) and/or Twelfth Day.
death
1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858
Births
1367 - King Richard II of England (d. 1400)
1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date)
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
I met Alexander on my birthday...not the same one but he is pretty great :)
- Anonymous1 decade ago
jan 15-I share the date with Martin Luther King
I never had to go to school on my birthday
- CC...xLv 51 decade ago
I share my birthday with Prince Phillip. Maybe that has something to do with why I put my feet in my own mouth so bloomin' often...
- Perfectly FlawedLv 51 decade ago
* 362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
* 1383 - The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
* 1575 - Foundation of Aguascalientes.
* 1746 - The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
* 1797 - One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
* 1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
* 1844 - The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipated the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
* 1877 - The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
* 1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
* 1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust (opera).
* 1895 - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
* 1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
* 1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
* 1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.
* 1926 - J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
* 1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
* 1943 - Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany
* 1953 - Laos gains independence from France.
* 1956 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
* 1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
* 1960 - Ed Yost makes the first free flight of a modern hot-air balloon at Bruning, Nebraska.
* 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
* 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
* 1964 - Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
* 1966 - The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
* 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
* 1969 - Led Zeppelin release the classic album Led Zeppelin II, featuring the hit single "Whole Lotta Love."
* 1972 - Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime
* 1975 - Carlton Fisk of the Boston Red Sox hits a home run to win Game 6 of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
* 1976 - Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
* 1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
* 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
* 1987 - John Coolidge Adams's opera Nixon in China debuts at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas.
* 1987 - The pinnacle rock Gendarme falls at Seneca Rocks.
* 1989 - Jacob Wetterling is abducted in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
* 1999 - Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
* 2002 - Internet users declare this day as the official Caps Lock Day.
* 2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
* 2005 - Crash of Bellview Airlines Flight 210 in Nigeria kills all 117 on board.
* 2005 - The first phase of Transantiago, the new public transport system of Santiago de Chile is implemented.
* 2006 - Panama: Referendum concerning the Panama Canal Expansion Proposal.
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