What happened on the day you were born?

Inspired by that what console are you thread i made this thread. Besides you being born, what else happened?

...and i can't find anything for my date of birth, except for more unimportant people being born. the day before this happened:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/1985_Mexico_City_earthquake

 

05/28/1985 - David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
05/28/1985 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G

 

15 - 03 - 1969

Bugger all.

 

Not a lot, just a bunch of uninteresting sports people were born too.

 

Gerhard Richter (who is awesome) has a painting called 20.09.1985 - which is my birthday

 

I think there has been a thread like this before . Because I remember this from wiki

• 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.

 

I'm not sure it's a good idea to give out your DOB for all to see.

 

The forum even has a birthday system, what's the big deal? What could anyone possibly do with it.

 

May 12, 1981 (Tuesday)

• U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker announced the Reagan administration's plan to balance the budget by reducing social security benefits paid for early retirement from 80% of the full rate to 55%.[26] The proposal was so unpopular that both Republicans and Democrats agreed on it, voting 96-0 on a resolution to condemn the idea.[27]
• Died: Benjamin H. Sheares, 73, President of Singapore since 1971; and Francis Hughes, 25, hunger striker at Maze Prison
• Last known simmage date for www.cricsim.com

hmm i guess nothing interesting.

 

Same here.

 

31st of July 1989

US-Launch of Nintendo's GameBoy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy

 

A shit load of cool things happened when I was born in 1975.
Here are 4

January

* Altair 8800 is released, sparking the microcomputer revolution.
* Volkswagen introduces the Golf, its new front-wheel-drive economy car, in the United States and Canada as the Volkswagen Rabbit.

# November 26 – The 1975 cult classic movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show came out in America.
# November 29
* The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).

 

Apparently, Riots in the UK and the end of a Screen Actors Guild strike.

How... appropriate.

 

September 13th 1982 - Dingo Baby Trial Opens in Australia. I guess that's where the joke "dingo ate your baby" came from?

September 19th 1982 - The first emoticons are posted by Scott Fahlman.

The only gaming related events I can think of are Super Mario Bros. being released on September 13th of 1985 and Mortal Kombat on September 13th of 1993. Playstation released in NA September 9th of 1994 and of course Dreamcast released in NA on 9/9/99. Super Nintendo and Genesis released in August. Now that I think about it, wasn't such a bad time to have a birthday fall on as a kid since it usually timed perfectly with some new game or system coming out for me to beg Mom an Dad for.

 

November 5th 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan".

Seems a few things happened on November 5th over the years. It's a pity Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes got busted in 1605.....

 

The local newspaper said: "ugly kid was born".

 

Nothing interesting on my b day but I did find this site.
http://www.pokemybirthday.com/

 

14 killed in a suicide bombing

 

Soledad O'Brien was born on the same day as I.