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Post by Lynnrose on Nov 30, 2009 12:51:40 GMT
>>>>>>Birthday History
Scroll down and type in the month and date of your Birthday to see what important things happened on that date in various years
Here is mine...
15th September
1890 - Birth date of Agatha Christie, famous mystery writer.
1916 - Tanks are used in warfare for the first time, introduced by the British at the Battle of the Somme.
1928 - Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovers that the mold penicillin has an antibiotic effect.
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Post by elvisuk on Nov 30, 2009 15:44:42 GMT
303 - George, the patron saint of England, is beheaded as a Christian martyr. (St George's Day)
1564 - Accepted birth date of William Shakespeare, the most famous playwright of all time.
1616 - Death of William Shakespeare.
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Post by mikkh on Nov 30, 2009 16:16:10 GMT
Same birthday as my brother then - mine is ten days earlier and my dads a week before that - busy month April
April 13th
1570 - Birth date of Guido (Guy) Fawkes. In 1605 Fawkes was one of a group of men who plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill King James I. Their plan failed, however, and some of the conspirators, including Fawkes, were hung for treason. In memory of this event, Guy Fawkes day is celebrated in Britain on November 5th each year. It is traditional to have fireworks and a bonfire on this day.
1743 - Birth date of Thomas Jefferson, Third US president 1801-1809
1866 - Birth date of Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch.
1899 - Birth date of Alfred Butts, inventor of the game of Scrabble.
1959 - Birth date of ME ! Still alive, but not particularly famous for anything - yet
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Post by Roz on Nov 30, 2009 21:04:17 GMT
December 18th
1856 - Birth date of Joseph John Thompson, discoverer of the electron.
1898 - An automobile speed record of 39 mph was set on this day.
1958 - A recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower became the first voice in space on this day.
1979 - Stanley Barrett became the first man to break the sound barrier in a land based vehicle on this day. Barrett drove his car, named The Budweiser Rocket, to a speed of 739.666 mph.
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Post by ken on Dec 1, 2009 2:48:18 GMT
February 7th
1812 - Birth date of Charles thingyens, author of 'Oliver Twist' and 'A Christmas Carol'.
1984 - Captain Bruce McCandless became the first person to perform a space walk without being tethered to a space craft on this day. He used a rocket pack of his own design to help him manoeuvre.
Apart from me being born, they might as well left that one blank.
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Post by ken on Dec 1, 2009 2:53:54 GMT
So old Charley Thingyens wrote Oliver Twist, that other guy must have pinched it off him. Its amazing what you can learn off this site.
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Post by merchant42 on Dec 1, 2009 6:29:40 GMT
Not much happened on mine !!!! (apart from me !)
1986 - thingy Rutan and Jeana Yeager complete the first nonstop, round-the-world flight without needing to refuel in the experimental aircraft Voyager.
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Post by mikkh on Dec 1, 2009 12:17:28 GMT
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Post by nocky2 on Dec 1, 2009 16:39:25 GMT
April 19th.
Yep, much more information mikkh, I now know 97 winners of the Boston Marathon. ;D
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Post by ken on Dec 1, 2009 19:36:38 GMT
Yeah, its great to know I was born on the same day as Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst.
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Post by elvisuk on Dec 1, 2009 19:56:00 GMT
Yep lots more info Mikkh
Famous Birthdays 23/4/
Results 1 - 100 of 268
1170 - Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190)
1185 - King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
1464 - Johanna van Valois, Queen of France
1464 - Robert Fayrfax, composer
1484 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
1500 - Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician
1500 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565)
1516 - Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571)
1598 - Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander
1621 - William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670)
1623 - Jan Adam Reincken, composer
1628 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
1629 - John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam)
1649 - Andreas Kneller, composer
1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1697 - George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer
1708 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem)
1715 - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
1720 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
1725 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)
1728 - Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island)
1735 - Ildephons Haas, composer
1746 - Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)
1747 - Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
1756 - Alexander Reinagle, composer
1775 - Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter (Shipwreck)
1791 - James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)
1791 - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
1794 - Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
1803 - Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice
1804 - Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)
1809 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
1810 - Thomas Wright, historian
1812 - Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor
1813 - Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates)
1813 - Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853)
1818 - James Anthony Froude, historian
1818 - John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1872
1821 - Pierre Dupont, song writer
1823 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861)
1827 - Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer
1828 - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902)
1838 - Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter
1852 - Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of Amer Acad of Poets Award 1937)
1853 - Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)
1858 - Max K E Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
1861 - Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal
1865 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
1867 - Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones)
1872 - Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
1876 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
1877 - Arthur Farwell, composer
1881 - Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22)
1881 - Otakar Sini, composer
1882 - Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)
1882 - Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien, Belgium, architect (WW II)
1888 - Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967)
1889 - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher
1890 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
1890 - Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
1891 - Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf)
1892 - Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Voort], Flemish writer
1892 - R Huelsenbeck, writer
1893 - Frank Borzage, Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo)
1894 - Basil Sydney, England, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
1894 - George Renevant, Paris, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X)
1894 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
1895 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
1896 - Margaret Kennedy, novelist
1897 - Harold French, director (Encore)/actor
1897 - John Wengraf, Vienna Austria, actor (12 to Moon, Pride & Passion)
1897 - Lester Bowles Pearson, (L) 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
1897 - Lucius du Bignon Clay, US, general (WW II)/gov (West Germany)
1898 - Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov)
1899 - Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ, Kiwi mystery writer (Black Beech & Honeydew)
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada)
1900 - Ary Verhaar, composer
1900 - Henry Barraud, composer
1900 - Joseph Green, film maker
1900 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1901 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)
1902 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1903 - Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d 1974)
1904 - Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor (Cisco Kid)
1904 - Leslie French, actor/singer (More than a Miracle)
1905 - Lord Carew, Ireland, judge (dressage)
1906 - Marcel Hillaire, Cologne Germany, actor (Adv in Paradise)
1906 - Maria Arnoldo, [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer
1907 - Baroness Dudley
1908 - Frederick Hawkins, dancer
1908 - Herbert Telley, British actuary
1908 - Myron Waldman, American animator (d. 2006)
1909 - Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant
1911 - Ronald Neame, director (1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure)
1911 - Simone Simon, France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love)
1913 - Jan Meyerowitz, composer
1914 - Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)
1914 - John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)
1914 - Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at SF Zen Center
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Post by ken on Dec 1, 2009 20:22:06 GMT
Its a pity it dosn't tell you where Lechestershire is Elvis. I expect Lord-Lt Andrew Martin, had Lechestercorns at the end of his garden.
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Post by elvisuk on Dec 1, 2009 20:43:18 GMT
April 23, 1914 in History
Born:
Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt, Lechestershire England
"Lechestercorns at the end of his garden". he is lucky to have a garden I've only got a hole 
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Post by Pete on Dec 20, 2009 21:54:33 GMT
April 23, 1914 in History
Born:
Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt, Lechestershire England
"Lechestercorns at the end of his garden". he is lucky to have a garden I've only got a hole
That's the hole story then ? |
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Post by elvisuk on Dec 21, 2009 12:21:15 GMT
Very good Pete but don't give up your day job 
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