I saw on Schmack a bit ago that
LoriThomas and
WillShipley have their birthdays on the same date as Shakespeare's, and I know mine is the same date as a lot of stuff, so I was wondering who else has their birthdays fall on an interesting date?
Birthdays:
- January 6: Epiphany, Ben Franklin born --AndrewHunter
- Januar 28: Challenger Explodes --BenJones
- February 4: The French outlaw slavery (1794), Bill Gates is hit with a cream pie (1998), Bach is born, and it's Sri Lanka's Independence Day. -SkyeBerghel
- February 15, according to Wikipedia: The USS Maine sinks, igniting the Spanish-American War, FDR assassination attempt, Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces, hacker Kevin Mitnick arrested by the FBI, protests over the war in Iraq occur in over 600 cities worldwide. Happy, ain't it? -RichardGarfinkel
- February 27: MelissaBanister's birthday -DanCicio
- March 8: Johannes Kepler discovers his Third Law of Planetary Motion, International Women's Day, First radio broadcast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - PeterTu
- March 14: Pi day, Einstein's birthday, Georg Phillipp Telemann's birthday, and White day (Japanese holiday that's kinda like Valentine's) -KevinBergemann
- March 18: Adam Levine born, Danneel Ackles born, Grover Cleveland born, Queen Latifah born - MarisolBeck
- March 24: World Tuberculosis Day! -BrianYoung
- April 3: Richmond, Virginia, capital of the CSA is taken by Union forces, Helmut Kohl is born(Chancellor of West Germany and then Germany, and a driving force behind reunification) -MichaelBraly
- April 23: Shakespeare's Birthday -LoriThomas, WillShipley
- May 11: Douglas Adams, Kim Philby die; Chang and Eng Bunker (the original Siamese Twins), Irving Berlin, Salvador Dali, Richard Feynman, Edsger Dijkstra born; India announces nuclear test -RichardMehlinger
- May 15: [The May 15 Incident] - RichardBowen
- May 25: The EdictOfWorms? is released (Silly MartinLuther?), BabeRuth? hit his last home run, as well as TOWEL DAY and UNIVERSAL DAY OF THE JEDI!!! -HamsterBob
- June 15: Battle of Kosovo, King John's signing of the Magna Carta -MartinPyne
- June 19: Juneteenth, Blaise Pascal's birthday, occasionally Father's Day -JulieWortman
- June 21: Summer Solstice (Longest day of the year!) -NickHerman
- June 23: Batman and Sonic the Hedgehog are released -ChainMaille
- July 1: Canada Day -JoshOratz
- July 10: My brother's birthday (he's 9 years older than I) -AlanKraut
- July 14: Independance days for France (Bastille Day) and Iraq (National Day), also both the Sedition Acts (it became illegal to talk smack about the American government) and the outlawing of all political parties other than the Nazi party occurred, and the birth of Gerald Ford (only President not elected), and the death of Billy the Kid (Also International Nude Day) -LoganGordon -BenJencks -JasonWinerip -EmmaMeersman
- July 16: Shoemaker-Levy impacts Jupiter = ColleenSullivan
- July 21: First Battle of Bull Run, John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution, Aswan Dam completed, first robot-related death in U.S. (according to Wikipedia) -RobinBaur
- August 16th: Madonna's Birthday, Cyprus's Independence -NickJohnson (yeah, thats the best i can do)
- August 24th: Jorge Luis Borges born -JonathanBeall
- September 10th: Canada joins WWII, the Lattimer Massacre; Bill O'Reilly and Colin Firth born -LianaEngie
- September 25th: Yosemite Nat'l Park, Racial integration, Mark Hamill's & Shel Silverstein's birthday -MikeBuchanan
- October 3rd: German Reunification -FrancesHocutt (who actually (if vaguely) remembers the news that day)
- October 4th: Launch of Sputnik I -JennaRyon
- October 6th: David Brin born -AdamField
- October 23rd: National Mole Day, Weird Al's birthday -MicahSmukler
- November 5th: GuyFawkesDay -LaurenSchulz
- November 9th: Day the Berlin Wall was torn down - BerlinPaez
- November 24th: periodically Thanksgiving -MichaelMaindi
- November 25th: periodically Thanksgiving, Joe Dimaggio's Birthday --KevinOelze
- December 22nd: periodically the winter solstice in the Northern hemisphere (shortest day of the year!) -LauraKanofsky
- December 28th: Linus Torvalds born - ChrisSauro
- December 31st: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time. - SabreenLakhani