What happened in the world on the day you were born?

[Benjamin]

Thanks to Claudia's interesting fact about the day she was born it made me wonder what I could find about the day I was born. Turns out not much, lol, but anything interesting from anyone else?


Here is the best I could find:

June 5th 1984;

- Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" becomes #1
- Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site (Golden Temple)

[King Gizzard]

According to Wiki..nothing

[Marc]

Feb 6th 1989. The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.

It must have been my presence in the world /smug

[MTVN]

- Pope John Paul II begins visit of US

woohoo

[Samuel.]

Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic within Bosnia and Herzegovina, in protest of the decision by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats to seek EC recognition. / The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.

Steve Brodie died.

[Shaun]

- Albert Collins, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies of pneumonia at 57
- Mariano Rumor, Italy's PM (1968-70, 73-1974), dies

[Smithy]

I was born, isn't that enough for the world :nono:

[Boothy]

-Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
- Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72
- Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), dies at 63

[Marc]

I was born, isn't that enough for the world :nono:

Naah we're going to need something credible otherwise the date in history will be wiped.

[InOne]

- Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die


Great.... lol

[GypsyGoth]

- Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die


Great.... lol

:laugh2:

[King Gizzard]

Although, I do have 3-4 newspapers from the day I was born, my parents saved them and gave me them on my 18th

[Smithy]

1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, resulting in two dead and three wounded.

D:

[Marc]

:laugh2: some lovely stories

[Niall]

I couldn't find anything interesting that happened on my birthday, but I came across this website that gives loads of statistics about you and your birthday. :amazed:

http://www.paulsadowski.com/BirthData.asp

[Smithy]

maybe you should change the thread title to who died the day you were born

[Marc]

As of 4/4/2012 8:09:06 PM*EDT
You are 23 years old.
You are 278 months old.
You are 1,208 weeks old.
You are 8,458 days old.
You are 203,012 hours old.
You are 12,180,729 minutes old.
You are 730,843,746 seconds old.

:shocked:

[Boothy]

I couldn't find anything interesting that happened on my birthday, but I came across this website that gives loads of statistics about you and your birthday. :amazed:

http://www.paulsadowski.com/BirthData.asp

That guessed my luck number is 3. It actually is :shocked:

[Shaun]

so old. so disgusting.

[Niall]

Oh wait something did happen on my birthday:

1995 – Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.

Must be why space interests me so much. :suspect:

[Marc]

I didnt celebrate my 200,000th hour :bawling:

[Smithy]

Your fortune cookie reads:
Don't ask, don't say. Everything lies in silence.

yaay

[Locke.]

Nothing according to wiki

[Niall]

Something morbid happened on my 1st birthday

1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.

D:

[Maia]

Nothing according to wiki

This :(

[Benjamin]

Wiki isn't the only place you can look. :laugh:

[Princess]

All I could find

UK
1990 United Kingdom Trial Convicts Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders
Aug. 27, 1990 : Former Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders and his three conspirators Gerald Ronson, Sir Jack Lyons and Anthony Parnes are convicted for involvement in a conspiracy to drive up the price of shares of Guinness.

Take That formed 4 days after I was born though.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

December 14th 1990 : Christina Ricci: Made her first screen debut at the age of 9 in movie "Mermaids"

wooo

[Boothy]

The first thing I did after being born was piss in the nurse's eye.

That is something else that happened on the day I was born.

[Jords]

- Replay shows A's Bobby Witt beat KC's Gagne to 1st in 6th but ump Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, runing Witt's perfect game
- South Africa reclaims its seat in UN

- Alan Frank, music publisher, dies at 83
- Piet van Elk, cartoonist, dies at 74
- Stanley Gebler Davies, journalist/drinker, dies at 50

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar :D

[Niamh.]

September 25th 1978

– PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
– Jodie Kidd was born

[joeysteele]

I'm disappointed ukturtle, looked mine up and nothing of significance,a jury was being selected for some case that's about it.

[Novo]

On June 27, 1990, 75 people were allegedly rounded by the Sri Lankan Army and later burned and a further 27 headless bodies washed ashore Kalmunai beach. In all, the UTHR allege that 7000 people were killed in June.

Nice to know some poor bastard was being beheaded as i was on my way out

[Novo]

Probably Kony's work as well

[Niamh.]

:laugh2:

[Patrick]

-The Messiah, The Legend, The Chosen One was born.

thats it. :(

[Kate!]

6th July 1969

Michael Grant, singer with Musical Youth (Pass the Dutchie) was born.

Filming began on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger.