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not to yourself.... but what happened on the day of your birthday in recent years?

 

1816 - The American Bible Society was formed in New York City.

 

1832 - The first national political platform was hammered out in Washington, DC.

 

1858 - Minnesota entered the United States of America this day as the Union’s 32nd state. Although its state bird is the common loon, there’s nothing common about Minnesota, whose Dakota-Sioux Indian name means sky-tinted water. The North Star State’s capital is St. Paul, which has a twin city, Minneapolis. The state flower is the lovely lady’s slipper.

 

1900 - In an effort to regain the heavyweight boxing title, James J. Corbett, known as Gentleman Jim, was knocked out cold by James J. Jeffries -- in the 23rd round. Maybe if he’d stopped at, say, 12 rounds...

 

1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was created by an act of Congress. These days, it takes an act of Congress to do just about anything, including getting Congress to act! Thank you.

 

1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded; although the first Oscars were not presented for several years after its founding.

 

1928 - WGY-TV in Schenectady, NY began the first schedule of regular TV programs. A very short schedule, in fact. WGY offered programming to the upstate New York audience three times a week using the mechanical scanning method. And mechanical scanning was not to be the wave of the future. It was electrical scanning, developed by Philo Farnsworth, that would make television available to the masses.

 

1946 - Jack Barry, a familiar face on TV game shows, hosted "Juvenile Jury" on WOR radio in New York City. The show was such a hit after five weeks on the air that it debuted on the Mutual Broadcasting System coast to coast. Maybe Barry became a bit too familiar in 1959. It was "Twenty One", the enormously popular show that Barry hosted, that led to the Quiz Show Scandal that rocked television and the U.S. Congress.

 

1946 - B.F. Goodrich announced the development of the tubeless tire. If you guessed that Mr. Goodrich was from Akron, OH, you win the T-shirt.

 

1956 - Former heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano went into public relations for the Raynham Dog Racing Track in Massachusetts.

 

1957 - Monte Irvin retired from baseball at the age of 39, due to a back injury.

 

1965 - Liza Minnelli opened in "Flora the Red Menace". The musical ran for only 87 performances at the Alvin Theatre.

 

1970 - The Chairmen of the Board received a gold record for the hit, "Give Me Just a Little More Time". The Detroit group recorded three other songs in 1970, with moderate success.

 

1972 - The San Francisco Giants announced that they were trading Willie Mays to the New York Mets.

 

1981 - Heavyweight boxing challenger Gerry Cooney left former champ Ken Norton on the ropes and unconscious after 54 seconds of the first round at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

 

1984 - The Detroit Tigers defeated the California Angels 8-2 and set a major-league record for victories at the beginning of a baseball season. The Tigers, under Sparky Anderson, won 26 of their first 30 games.

 

1985 - Duane ‘Pancho’ Carter grabbed the pole position for the Indianapolis 500. Carter entered the history books with a speed of 212.583 MPH for four qualifying laps around the 2.5 mile track at Indy.

 

1985 - Scott Brayton turned in the fastest lap ever at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Brayton was traveling at 214.199 MPH in the third lap of qualifying. He had already set records in the first two trips around the track. Brayton’s average speed of 212.354 broke the record previously set by Tom Sneva in the 1984 time trials.

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July 21st in History

 

1944: American marines capture the western Pacific island of Guam

 

1959: Savannah', the worlds first nuclear powered merchant ship, is launched

 

1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the Moon

 

1976: was the hottest year in uk ever recorded

 

1983: Authorities end Martial Law in Poland

 

1985: South African government declares State of Emergency

 

1990: Rock concert in East Berlin, celebrating the removal of the wall, attended by 150,000

 

1970: aswan high dam compleated

 

1861 In the first major battle of the Civil War, Confederate forces defeat the Union Army along Bull Run near Manassas

 

Junction, Virginia. The battle becomes known as Manassas by the Confederates, while the Union calls it Bull Run.

 

1865 Wild Bill Hickok kills gunman Dave Tutt in Springfield, Illinois, in the first formal quick-draw duel.

 

1873 The James Gang robs a train in Adair, Iowa.

 

1896 Mary Church Terrell founds the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, D.C.

 

1906 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is vindicated of his earlier court-martial for spying for Germany.

 

1919 The British House of Lords ratifies the Versailles Treaty.

 

1925 John Scopes is found guilty for teaching evolution in Dayton, Tenn., and is fined $100.

 

1941 France accepts Japan's demand for military control of Indochina.

 

1944 U.S. Army and Marine forces land on Guam in the Marianas.

 

1954 The French sign an armistice with the Viet Minh that ends the war but divides Vietnam into two countries.

 

1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the first woman prime minister of Ceylon.

 

 

They is a lot more that happend on the same day i was born in the history files.but too much to put on this post.

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1992 - Futurist/author Isaac Asimov dies at age 72 of heart and kidney failure in New York.

 

mmm, nice... :shakes:

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I share my birthday with non other than the profit Mohammed

 

Beat That!!!!!!

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- 1962 John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven.

 

- 1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party

 

- 1989 Total eclipse of the Moon

 

I remembered the John Glenn one from a visit to Kennedy Space Centre a few years ago :)

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Loads of things happened on my Birthday - here are a few:

 

1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.

1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.

1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1821 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.

1924 - Greece proclaims itself a republic.

1941 - Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.

1957 - The European Economic Community is established.

1960 - In London, United Kingdom, Jacqueline Boyer wins the fifth Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi".

1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. complete successfully their 4 day 50 mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.

1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).

1972 - In Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Vicky Leandros wins the seventeenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Après toi" (After you).

1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

1996 - The EU's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).

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June 30th:

 

1651 - Battle of Beresteczko ends with Polish victory.

1805 - The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.

1864 - Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation."

1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" where he introduces special relativity.

1908 - Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia

1934 - Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany takes place.

1936 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell published

1956 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing 128

1960 - Congo gains independence from Belgium

1971 - The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through faulty valve.

1971 - The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, ratified as Ohio became the 38th state to approve it.

1987 - Ian Mitchell born :D

1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937.

1997 - China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.

2002 - Brazil defeats Germany 2-0 in Yokohama, Japan, to earn a record fifth title in the 17th Football World Cup.

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Mine seems to have become Transgender Day of Remembrance (since 1999) :suspect:

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1966: Football's World Cup stolen

The football World Cup is stolen while on exhibition in London

 

1974: Kidnap attempt on Princess Anne

Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips escape an apparent kidnap attempt.

 

2003: US launches missiles against Saddam

American missiles hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, signalling the start of the US-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein.

 

And next year it's International Earth Day, so I'm expecting to be honoured with compost on my birthday. Hurrah!

 

And so would Clark Gable, Gloria Vanderbilt and Fred Rogers, were they still with us. Amen.

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