What major events happened on your birthday?

[Hondo]

The US Navy kicked the shit out of the Japanese Navy at The Battle of Midway...June 4, 1942

[Beckster]

April 20th:

1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon .
1984 – The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
2007 – Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last five months.

woot:

Hitler's birthday.

Yeah, I mentioned that first... ad: Thanks for the reminder, though.

[Chip]

This topic reminds me of how much I like WWII history.
So much shit happened every day.

[Brampton]

1991 A day before he dies, Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS
1991 Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games
1988 Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1984 Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard touchdown (Hail Mary Pass) to end game and beat Miami 47-45
1963 "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England
1946 34th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 28-6
1939 Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star

[NussieT]

Most of mine are sports related.... check them out... June 19th... I will also add that Pete & Mrs. Pete Nice were wed on this day.

http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/june_19.html

[Derick]

Me. I was the major event

[i bleed green]

March 25



0421 - The city of Venice was founded.
1306 - Robert the Bruce was crowned king of Scotland.
1634 - Lord Baltimore founded the colony of Maryland.
1669 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupted destroying Nicolosi. 20,000 people were killed.
1807 - The first railway passenger service began in England.
1807 - British Parliament abolished the slave trade.
1813 - The frigate USS Essex flew the first U.S. flag in battle in the Pacific.
1821 - Greece gained independence from Turkey.
1865 - During the American Civil War, Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman in Virginia.
1940 - The U.S. agreed to give Britain and France access to all American warplanes.
1954 - RCA manufactured its first color TV set and began mass production.
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery, AL.
1972 - Bobby Hull joined Gordie Howe to become only the second NHL player to score 600 career goals.
1982 - Wayne Gretzky became the first player in the NHL to score 200 points in a season.
1991 - Saddam Hussein launched a major counter-offensive to recapture key towns from Kurds in northern Iraq.
2004 - The U.S. Senate voted (61-38) on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997) to make it a separate crime to harm a fetus during the commission of a violent federal crime.

[cody]

-A couple of U.S. Presidents died.
-St. Ulrich Of Augsburg was canonized (my 67th most favourite Saint BTW)
-Boise Idaho was founded (why? We'll never know)
-Veromont hit a 105 F! A state record.
-France Turkish Friendship treaty is signed.
-A British Colony didn't want to pay it's taxes.
-Mum lovingly shit me out. Awww.
July.4

[cody]

PS
That colony was the United States of MMMMMERICA! :boobs: