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they have this on another forum i go on and i thought it was pretty cool

basically just post an event that happened on your birthday.

if you don't know anything you can use this site:

 

http://www.datesinhistory.com/

 

or

 

http://www.historyorb.com/

 

 

 

 

april 5th:

kurt cobain dies.

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3rd October

 

1283 Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.

 

1863 Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.

 

1922 First facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC

 

1942 Spaceflight: First successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemnde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.

 

1952 First video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca

 

1952 United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.

 

1955 The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.

 

1974 Watergate trial begins

 

1981 The Hunger Strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.

 

1990 East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany after 43 years of division.

 

1995 O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.

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July 26th

 

1775 The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress.

 

1788 New York becomes 11th state to ratify US constitution

 

1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London

 

1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)

 

1971 Apollo 15, a manned lunar expedition, is launched.

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April 18th.

 

1895 New York State passed an act that established free public baths! They were to be open 14 hours a day and provide hot and cold water.

:rotfl:

 

1955 Albert Einstein developer of relativity theory, dies

1994 Richard Nixon, former President of the United States, suffers a stroke and dies four days later.

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8th dec:

 

1997 The FBI announced its new National DNA Index System (NDIS). NDIS allows forensic science laboratories to link serial violent crimes to each other and to known sex offenders through the electronic exchange of DNA profiles. This same day, the FBI Laboratory announced its success in extracting a DNA profile using mitochondrial DNA (mDNA). mDNA analysis allows extraction of DNA from minute quantities of physical evidence like a strand of human hair.

 

 

 

cool thing.

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april 18th, 1992

 

General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolted against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allied with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.

 

Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)

 

Tennis ace Stefan Edberg marries Annette Olsen in Sweden

 

cool lol

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18th january

 

1689 - Charles de Montesquieu, France, philosopher/writer is born

1896 - 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)

1951 - 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands

1960 - US & Japan sign joint defense treaty

1973 - John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC

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