What happened on your birthday?

Oh and my birthday is international dance day appazo...

1965 – Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

1992 - White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.

Apparently it's National Peanut Lover's Day in the US on 15th March, I was born 3 days too late!!

1981 - Bob Marley died..

Patsy Cline died in a place crash in 1963

Elaine Paige was born.

Oooh loads happened on my birthday day!

Points to note:

Events

• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

Births

• 1935 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
• 1936 – Brian Blessed, English actor
• 1940 – John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Beatles, The Quarrymen, Plastic Ono Band, and The Dirty Mac) (d. 1980)
• 1966 – David Cameron, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 2008 – Bo, American dog of the Obama family

It's world Haemophilia day. A lot has happened, but not much that is interesting/that I've heard of.

Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II

"Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain

Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.

winning.

I know I have the same birthday as Victoria Beckham and Sean Bean...and Daffy Duck.

1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned.

Oh dear, my birthday 'on this day' doesn't make for very cheerful reading at all.

John Lennon was shot, a couple of declarations of war and alot of plane crashes.

1889 - The eiffel tower opened

1909 - construction began on the titanic

1990 - 200,000 protesters take to the streets to protest against poll tax

BIRTHS - 1971 - Ewan McGregor

Literally nothing happened on 20th February EVER!

I'm rubbish at this how do you find out? 26th March 1979.

Just type to date and month into Wikipedia vp.

Birthday twin! ?

Just go on to wikipedia and type in 26th March and it will come up with everything that has happened throughout the years!

Steve Tyler, Diana Ross, William Hague all born

The first ever british driving test

The first female prisoners in Autswich

1956 - mummy bubble was born

Not a lot happened on my birthday really, some bloke called Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the houses of Parliament or summat

*Sits back and awaits ATB to do the research* (as we share the same birthday)

1969 - Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Centre.

1983 - helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly.

1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr. dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean.

1989 - Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu

2007 - The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly

1916 - Roald Dahl Born

and

my birthday is International Chocolate Day

You win. ?

Mine are really boring on Wikipedia.

1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.

2002 – The company Clonaid announces that it has successfully cloned a human being, although it has never presented any verifiable evidence.

Although, I have read that on the actual day I was born, Simon and Yasmine Le Bon got married

Births

1822 - Louis Pasteur - inventor of Pasteurisation

1944 – Mick Jones, British musician (Foreigner)

1946 – Janet Street-Porter, British journalist, producer and presenter

1981 – Javine Hylton, English singer

Deaths

1923 – Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect - built the Eiffel Tower

Kurt Cobain was born ?

Seems to be loads of unhappy things for mine- war and assassination mostly! A couple of the more interesting ones:

1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.

2012 – Adam Lambert became the first openly gay artist to debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts, with his album Trespassing

Died:

2010 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1926)

1968 – Enid Blyton, British children's author (b. 1897)

Born:

1967 – Anna Nicole Smith, American television personality (d. 2007)

1958 – Kriss Akabusi, British athlete and television presenter

1757 – William Blake, British poet (d. 1827)

Lots of doom and gloom, plus

1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City

1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.

Oh yes, and last year Jimmy Saville died.

622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar.

1861 – American Civil War: at the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25 mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.

1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.

1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1973 – Watergate scandal: former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

1994 – Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22. (I watched this on telly at the time)

1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.

Births:

1956 – Jerry Doyle, American actor (aka Michael Garibaldi in Babylon 5, my fave tv show!)

1958 – Michael Flatley, Irish-American dancer, choreographer, and actor

1966 – Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster

1967 – Will Ferrell, American comedian and actor

Deaths:

1557 – Anne of Cleves (b. 1515)

1882 – Mary Todd Lincoln, American wife of Abraham Lincoln, 17th First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)

Oops, I got a bit carried away. Sorry!

Another one for me, , ,

Events

1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.

2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

Births

1915 – Sir Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian (d. 2010)

1948 – Alice Cooper, American musician

1972 – Dara Ó Briain, Irish comedian

1975 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress

Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer

Deaths

2012 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I (b. 1901)

Events:

366 – The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.

1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.

Births:

1938 – Ian Brady, British serial killer (great...)

1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress

and it is Ancestry Day in Haiti