This Happened on My Birthday

1975 John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"  (see more)

1.3.1888 - Marvin C. Stone patents the drinking straw. (see more)

1885 The first gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer...

Then Gas price went up I guess lol... (see more)

1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
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1934 Bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by FBI agents outside of the Biograph Theater in Chicago.  (see more)

When I was born I was dead for 3 minutes till they revived me from the dead (see more)

The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. dies August 17, 1988. The same day I was born. His birthday was also August 17th. He died on his 74th birthday, which was the day I was born. (see more)

12/31/1862 : President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union (see more)

12/21/2012
Forecast as the end of this age by the Mayas, who had remarkably accurate lunar and solar calendars, and fairly advanced mathematics. (see more)

1972 Paula the cat, a ten month old tabby, survives a fall from the 26th floor of an apartment building. (see more)

2001 Release of Microsoft's Windows XP
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1914 World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic - Two days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.  (see more)

1999 Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the Chicago Bulls (for the second and final time). (see more)

1250 Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.  (see more)

the first personal computor - the apple 2- goes on sale so without my birthday you woudlnt be on this site (see more)

1784 Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over the eagle as America's symbol

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1996 Tupac Shakur was shot and would later die of the injuries.
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0064 Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.
1953 Rock star Elvis Presley made his first recording in Sun Studios.
1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1959 The first black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
1940 The first successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct  (see more)

March 2nd, 1807: The U.S. Congress prohibits the importation of foreign-born slaves into the country. (see more)