BIRTHDAYS AND HISTORY...

This is sort of a spinoff of the "what happened today thread". Try to find something in history (preferably recent - 19th-20th Century) that happened on the date you were born.

For example, my birthday is September 10th, which is when the battle of the Marne ended.

Get the idea? Let's see how this works out...

DUCE

 

I hate to say this......mine is August 6 th of this year......I think almost everyone knows what happened on this date back in 1945, 58 years ago over Japan....

~E

 

Loads seems to have happened on my birthday, 30th August:
31 -BC- Origin of Era of Augustus
257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty
1843 1st black participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1905 Ty Cobb's 1st major league at bat (Detroit Tigers)
1906 Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
1910 Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
1912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
1916 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
1916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
1945 Hong Kong liberated from Japan
1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1961 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1963 Hot Line communications link between Wash DC & Moscow went begins
1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1967 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
1968 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
1969 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1979 1st recorded occurrence-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1979 Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump women's record (6'10¬")
1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
1990 Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on the same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in the 1st inning
1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
1991 France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14« to 13«
1991 Mike Powell of the US, sets then long jump record at 29' 4«"


Actually, the day I was born (in 1985) there was a huricane in Mexico that caused a state of emergency to be declared!

 

Right on Stefan...although I DID say RECENT events LOL
and that's cool that you're less than two weeks older than I am...big 18 this year! LOL

DUCE

 

I have the same birthday as Patton and Leonardo DiCaprio...yay. It's also Veteran's Day. My birthday is 11/11/80. There's a whole mess of stuff that happened but it probably doesn't interest anyone else.

 

oh you kids !......

Stefan, another August baby ! yeah man I'm not alone here ...... great month eh ?

~E Altenwolf

 

Hey! Allot of August guys here!

8/8/77 here!

1945 Soviets declare war on Japan; invade Manchuria
On this day in 1945, the Soviet Union officially declares war on Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army.
The dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima by the Americans did not have the effect intended: unconditional surrender by Japan. Half of the Japanese inner Cabinet, called the Supreme War Direction Council, refused to surrender unless guarantees about Japan's future were given by the Allies, especially regarding the position of the emperor, Hirohito. The only Japanese civilians who even knew what happened at Hiroshima were either dead or suffering terribly.
Japan had not been too worried about the Soviet Union, so busy with the Germans on the Eastern front. The Japanese army went so far as to believe that they would not have to engage a Soviet attack until spring 1946. But the Soviets surprised them with their invasion of Manchuria, an assault so strong (of the 850 Japanese soldiers engaged at Pingyanchen, 650 were killed or wounded within the first two days of fighting) that Emperor Hirohito began to plead with his War Council to reconsider surrender. The recalcitrant members began to waver.

 

Hey, I didn't notice that Duce, cool, got any plans?

Erich, sure is a damned fine month, particularly as due to the holidays I always miss out on the ritual 'Birthday Beats' by the whole year at school! On the other hand, I am a Virgo which apparently explains a lot.

 

David yeah man ! I knew this was going to be a good day !!!!!

 

........Like, the end of WW1!!!

 

17th December
Malmedy Massacre 1944
Scuttling of the Graf Spee 1939

 

Only one I know of off hand is that the battle of the Ia Drang valley was going on 10 years before I was born on Dec. 1st. Kinda cool, since my dad was in it!

 

November 4th, 1918 was my grandfathers birthday.

1942 Rommel Begins the "Great Retreat"
On this day, after losing the final and most famous battle at El Alamein, Egypt, General Field Marshall Erwin Rommel disobeyed Hitler's orders and began his five-month retreat. The grueling twelve-day battle had been a tragicomedy of errors for the Axis powers. In fact, when the battle began, Rommel was at a mountain resort in Austria, recovering from liver and blood-pressure problems. He arrived two days late, only to find his panzer army out-manned almost two-to-one by British General Bernard L. Montgomery's crew of 195,000 soldiers. Rommel also realized that food was running short and only seven issues of gasoline remained to supply his hundreds of vehicles. Weakened by constant British air attacks and a dearth of supplies, Rommel radioed Hitler of his intention to retreat on November 3. Hitler denied him with this rather unrealistic response: "It would not be the first time in history that the stronger will has triumphed over the enemy's strong battalions. You can show your troops no other road than to victory or death." Rommel was stunned. While the British army continued pummeling his troops, he fumed. He finally ordered a retreat in mid-afternoon of the next day, without Hitler's approval. But the damage of delaying retreat had been costly. Rommel later admitted that his obedience to Hitler's "victory or death" order was his one mistake of the battle.

 

Stefan...what's wrong with being a virgo?! LOL
As for plans...by then I should have at least had my MRI on my shoulder, and depending on what they find will decide how quick I get surgery. Lots of parties, one for the family, one for the friends and one for the 'adult' friends. Lots of clubbing and waking up with a headache.
But by this time next year I'll be in the Canadian Army Reserves....I had to put it off because of the stupid shoulder problems...bleh.

What about yourself? any plans?

To continue...
I was supposed to be born August 15th (I was almost a month late)...which also happens to be Napoleon's birthday as well.

DUCE

 

Well, apparently Virgos are passionate and argumentative, which can be a bad thing I find, or at least my GF does .

Arrangements, well much the same really, BBQ for the family etc followed by a late night bowling match and whatever I can find to follow that...

 

you bowl?!?!?! that's EXCELLENT! I do too! 5 pin or 10 pin? What's your average?
I bowl 5 pin and currently have a 216 average....

....wow, I just realized how much of a geek I am

DUCE

 

I bowl 10 pin and my average is 194 (ish). I am not great but maybe with more practice..

 

February 24


Saturday, February 24, 1940 www.onwar.com


From Berlin... Revised orders for the attack in the west are issued. OKH has been conducting exercises throughout the winter and especially in the early days of this month because of dissatisfaction with the attack plan. Following Manstein's conversation with Hitler on March 17th and an OKH presentation to him on the 18th it has been decided to revise the plans to emphasize the role of Army Group A and an attack through the Ardennes. As far as technique goes the plans are fairly traditional. The emphasis is still not yet fully on the possibilities of the panzer advance. Rundstedt and Bock, who will be the principal commanders are, despite their considerable abilities, wedded to the conventional infantry-based ideas. Although the direction of the attack is certainly bold, the old school see early problems when it becomes necessary to cross the Meuse River. The tank enthusiasts, like Guderian, are more concerned about exploiting the advance after the crossing.

In Copenhagen... A Scandinavian neutrality conference is held by the attending foreign ministers.

In Rome... Germany and Italy sign a trade agreement giving the Italians an increased coal supply.



Monday, February 24, 1941 www.onwar.com


In North Africa... British and German forces engage in the desert for the first time.


Tuesday, February 24, 1942
On the Eastern Front... The Soviet Winter Offensive is slowing in the face of greater German resistance. In the north, the Red Army have encircled German 2nd Corps of the German 16th Army, just south of Lake Ilmen in the Demyansk region. The entrapped German troops will hold until relieved in April because the Luftwaffe manages to drop 270 tons of supplies to them daily.

On Wake Island... Admiral Halsey on board the USS Enterprise leads task force in a successful attack on Wake Island.


Wednesday, February 24, 1943
In Tunisia... Rommel is appointed to command Army Group Africa which is to include 5th Panzer Army (von Arnim) and Italian 1st Army (Messe). The
Axis forces are withdrawing to the Eastern Dorsale

Thursday, February 24, 1944 www.onwar.com


In Burma... British forces capture the Nyakyedyauk Pass.

On the Eastern Front... In the north, forces of the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front capture the rail junction of Dno, east of Pskov. Meanwhile, Rogachev falls to forces of the 2nd Belorussian Front.

In New Guinea... American forces reach Biliau near Cape Iris.

Over Britain... The ninth Luftwaffe bombing raid on London is carried out since the beginning of the "Little Blitz" on January 21st. A total of 129 German bombers have been lost since this operation began.



Saturday, February 24, 1945 www.onwar.com


On the Eastern Front... The Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) begins a new offensive in the morning with a 30-minute artillery barrage.
Over Germany... Colonel Ivan Kojedub, the top scoring Soviet (and Allied) fighter ace (with 62 victories), shoots down a German Me262 over Berlin.

On the Western Front... To the north, attacks by British and Canadian continue to drive southeast toward Udem and Weeze. Julich is captured by units of the US 19th Corps as the US 9th Army begins to extend its advance over the Roer River. To the south, the US 1st and 3rd Armies also push forward.

In the Volcano Islands... On Iwo Jima, forces of US 5th Amphibious Corps continue to advance northward and capture part of the island's second airfield.

In the Philippines... On Luzon, American forces eliminate desperate Japanese resistance in the Intramuros -- the old walled quarter of Manila.

In Burma... In their advance on Meiktila, the British 17th Indian Division takes Taungtha.



Thats a war,


Also, the thing im most happy about being on my birthday was that it was the second day of Allied 'Big Week' the offensive against German aerocraft production

 

August 24th, 1987 is my birthday(same as Sean Connery). The only three things I know of are the eruption of Mt.Vesuvius,the St.Bartholemew's Day massacre of Protestant Hugenots by Catholics in France(early 1600's?). The last is the taking of Paris(actually 25th, but someone else used a two week break in events so why can't I?) in 1944 by the Allies.

 

Ahh, another August Birthday!