What Happened on your B-Day other then you?

[Iron Kat]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12

 

[Shift]

1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
1789 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 - After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France was executed by the guillotine.
1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies; a lengthy power struggle emerges between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin begins, culminating to the latter's consolidation of power c. 1928.
1941 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1976 - Commercial service of Concorde begins with London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kg (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.

The day Lenin died? Maybe in the future Communism will rise again and I will destory it! hehe

And although it aint on wiki, I was also born the same day as Martin Luther King Jr.

 

[Dinkleberry]

11th July

1987 - According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.

(Which is actually the year I was born)

**** yeah! you can call me Mr 5 Billion round here from now on.

 

[Dinkleberry]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12

And if you were 9 years old, you could be Ms 6 Billion!

 

[Dekstar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_30

1953 - Hal Lindes, British-American musician (Dire Straits)
I listen to Dire Straits all the time \o/
1983 - Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)
My cousin likes them, he thinks I'm cool now. I don't care for them (except Ugly, that's a good song)
To be honest lots of births of people in the arts.

As for Events:
1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity.
\o/
1986 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
but then lol:
2005 - Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
Apparently lots of gay stuff occurs on my birthday.

 

[Nitre]

1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the states first highways is laid out in Trumbull.
1776 - Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general.
1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
1917 - World War I: The US declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (See also 8 December. Because of the time difference, events of 8 December that took place west of the International Date Line happened while it was December 7 to the east of this line.)
1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as "The Blue Marble" as they leave the Earth.
1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

Some of the interesting ones.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Good times:
313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.
1492 - Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
1803 - Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
1900 - Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1993 - The World Wide Web is born at CERN. (Holy ****, the internet was born when I was! D

Bad times:
1945 - World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the red flag over the Reichstag building.

 

[mocho loco]

1998 - Google is launched.
2002 - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
2003 - Smart 1 satellite is launched