This is the thread where we talk about the crazy historical shit that happened on the day you were born

Former Republican candidate for California senate Michael Huffington (Ariana's husband, or ex) came out of the closet on my birthday! He also admitted that he "might" be a Democrat. !!!

Also, Orange County, CA went bankrupt in 1994 on my birthday. I mean, I know my government ties and my excess were a dangerous mixture back then, but man, little did I know.. sorry, dudes.

also i am exactly one day older than mick hucknall :(

What happened ON December 6, 1971 that was newsworthy...

Bangladesh became free acc. to India, officially:

Bengali Independence Is Recognized by India
December 6, 1971
NEW DELHI, Dec. 6 -- India formally recognized the government of Bangla Desh today as the government of East Pakistan. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi told cheering members of Parliament that the government had decided to recognize the Bengali rebels, who won a national majority in Pakistan-wide elections a year ago, "after careful consideration."

Also, something important happened in Pakistan:

Faced with these difficulties, President Yahya ceded power to Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party that had won the majority votes in the 1970 elections in West Pakistan. On the request of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, on December 6, 1971, Yahya Khan installed a civilian setup at the Centre and Nurul Amin, a prominent Bengali politician who was against Mujib-ur-Rahman, was made the Prime Minister. Z. A. Bhutto was made Deputy Prime Minister on the same day. Nurul Amin remained Prime Minister till December 20, 1971, the day when Bhutto took over as the civilian Chief Marshal Law Administrator.

In actual use are hanging flags in the proportions 10:3; the arms cover 50% of the flag width. The flag is used during municipal festivities (e.g. Holzlandvolksfest) and church holidays.

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Location: Murphysboro, IL
Witness: Christian Baril (4), Randy Creath, Cheryl Ray
Incident: Christian saw 'big white ghost' in yard; 10 mins later in neighboring yard Randy & Cheryl saw 7-ft dirty white Bigfoot with glowing pink eyes standing watching them. Went off through trees and left a strong 'sewer' odor. Tracked by police and dog; slime found on weeds.

I share a birthday with: Steve Reich, Gwen Stefani, Tommy Lee, Linday Buckingham, Stevie Ray Vaughnn, Al Sharpton, Chubby Checker, John Perry Barlow, Gore Vidal, Thomas Wolfe, James Herriot, James M. Buchanan (the economist)

OJ TRIAL ENDS
1990 - The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceases to exist.
1964 - Underdog debuts on CBS.
1942 - Germany tests the first V-2 rocket
42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: The Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius. Although Brutus defeats Octavian, Antony defeats Cassius.

deaths:
1967 - Woody Guthrie, Amerian folk musician (b. 1912)
2000 - Benjamin Orr, bassist and part-time lead singer for The Cars (b. 1947)
2004 - Janet Leigh, actress (b. 1927)

there was a failed Iranian hostage rescue mission

the Vatican issued a "DECLARATION ON EUTHANASIA"

Craig David was born on my bday A YEAR AFTER ME

Stories from 26 October:
In 1951, Churchill won the general election. In 1959 the world glimpsed the far side of the Moon. The South Korean president was assassinated in 1979. Israel and Jordan made peace in 1994. The gunfight at O.K. Corral was held in 1881. Peace is restored between Scotland and Charles I of England in 1640 with the Treaty of Ripon. Nine hundred years before that, an earthquake struck Constantinople.

26 October birthdays:
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947)
Pat Sajak (1947)
Natalie Merchant (1960, I think?)

26 October deaths:
Alfred the Great (899)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1902)
Prince Hirobumi Ito (1909 - assassinated)

Ooh! And in The American Friend Dennis Hopper talks into a tape recorder and mentions the date is December 6, 1976.

November 22, 1963: Kennedy gets shot.

venera 12 lands on venus
john wayne gacy arrested
pavn invades cambodia
basque separatist argala assassinated
turkish fascists kill two teachers
kimmie nipples born

it's all coming together now.

Dr. John Lightfoot, (1602 - 1675), an Anglican clergyman, rabbinical scholar, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge had already arrived at an estimate [for the time of the creation] of 4004-OCT-23 BCE, at 9 AM.

Johnny Carson
Chi Chi Rodriguez
Pele
Michael Crichton
Dwight Yoakam
Sam Raimi
Weird Al Yankovic

they forgot to list george clinton, though.

candian house of commons votes to abolish the death penalty (#1 song on the canadian charts: "afternoon delight")

three rivers michigan has all time biggest diurnal temperature spread (high of 97, low of 45) (these are getting hard to top)

Libya and Syria were both designated by the U.S. State Department as State Sponsors of Terrorism.

The Soviet-influenced, communist PDPA party continued its rule over Afghanistan as Babrak Karmal, the leader of the Parcham faction, appointed himself president and prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and general secretary of the PDPA.

Wings (you know, the Paul McCartney group) gave their final concert performance for some live benefit for Kampuchea.

U.S. Congress passed the DOE [Department of Energy] National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1980, which created the WIPP [Waste Isolation Pilot Plant].

Diego Luna, one of the co-stars of that Y Tu Máma Tambíen movie, was born. (Yeah, he and I are exactly the same age.)

Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wrote a coded journal entry pertaining to his third unsuccessful attempt at a bombing, which was to take place mid-flight on American Airlines Flight 444 on November 15, 1979. This journal entry was later introduced into evidence during his 1997 trial.

and I also learned that I share a birthday with Jennifer Saunders darling.

In rough Googledom order:
Oakland Athletic beat NY Yankees 4-3 at Yankee Stadium.
Miller Creek Demonstration Forest, MT: Unit East-3 was clearcut, slashed and prescribed burned.
Bomb placed aboard Bahamas ship Caribbean Venture in the US (Orlando Bosch).
Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko met with Alexander Dubcek. They had a nice chat about rightist and antisocialist forces.
The Who played at the Schaefer Music Festival, Wolman Skating Rink, Central Park, New York.
Takes 1 through 46 of George Harrison's "Not Guilty" are recorded. There would be 102 takes before it is decided not to release the song for "The Beatles" double LP.
Philanthropist, San Fran socialite, and patron of the arts Alma Emma Spreckels [née de Bretteville] died of pneumonia, aged 87.
The New Pavilion Theatre, Morley, West Yorkshire - having closed as a cinema two weeks earlier - opened as Star Bingo.

One day younger than me: Winnie from The Wonder Years, James Marsden, Thomas Bangalter

But! My mother was born on the day of the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Nixon was just about to resign and had a family meeting that day to tell them of his decision. Great photos here http://millercenter.virginia.edu/programs/prp/nixon/photos/nara/

High wire artist Philippe Petit electrified New York City -- and the world -- with his early morning walk between the twin towers

http://www.illusiongenius.com/WTC-cross.jpg

J.GEILS BAND frontman Peter Wolf marries Oscar-winning
actress Faye Dunaway

Recorded August 7, 1974:
Christmas Dream ( with The London Boy Singers )
from the original 1974 Columbia Pictures film soundtrack "The Odessa File"
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by and Tim Rice
with German lyrics by André Heller
Produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Pete Spargo
London recordings conducted by Anthony Bowles and Alan Doggett
Recorded in London and New York ( RCA's Studio C )

Born:
Jeff Buckey, tackle for the Miami Dolphins
Philippe De Rouville, Victoriaville, NHL goalie for the Pittsburgh Penguins

However, Hawaii gained statehood on my -20th B-day, and I share a birthday with Wilt Chamberlain, Count Basie, Melvin Van Peebles, Shimon Peres, Kenny Rogers, Joe Strummer, Kim Catrall & Alizee (I don't know who this last person is).

Sadly, the most interesting people DIED on my birthday--Elizabeth Bathory, Leon Trotsky, and sadly (because it ruined my 24th B-day), Wesley Willis.

You're just angling for the animated Alizee pictures, aren't you? Go on, admit it.

Sep sixth is also the day that the Mayflower set out from Plymouth (1620), the day that Swaziland was declared independent (1968), and the day of Princess Di's funeral (1997).

Shared birthday with Tim Henman, Roger Waters, and the Marquis de Lafayette; death-day of James II and Kurosawa (duuuuude).

a)stop getting dates wrong, Americans!

b)But 100 years earlier!

http://ufocasebook.com/highwayi84abduction.html

- A train crash in Saltillo, Mexico left 208 dead.

- In music news, Patto played a concert in Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand, with Joe Cocker.

- An episode of the TV series "Odd Couple" entitled "The Pen is Mightier Than the Pencil" aired.

- George W. Bush's National Guard unit joined a "24-hour active alert mission to safeguard against surprise attack" in the southern United State, a time when Bush did not report for duty, according to his pay records.

- And there's this entry from the Nixon tapes:

Conversation No. 108-1

Date: October 6, 1972

Time: Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:28 am

Location: Cabinet Room

Floyd B. McKissick, Sr., Charles Hurst, Samuel C. Jackson, W. O. Walker, Robert J. Brown, Clark MacGregor, Frederic V. Malek, Frank C. Herringer, Paul R. Jones, and Stanley S. Scott met; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

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The President entered at 9:06 am

Introductions

Photographs

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Opportunities

-Education

Blacks

-The President’s accomplishments

-Record

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Presentation of gifts

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Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 9:28 am

My favorites being:
1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.
1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield so as to avoid breaking all the windows in Moscow.
1974 - "The Rumble in The Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.

Also, part of the MC5's Kick Out The Jams was recorded on Oct. 30.

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Begins on the very day I was born.

Also, Mariner 10 was launched.

October 21, 1967

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20051021-pentagon-vietnam-protest-washington-dc-lyndon-johnson-jerry-rubin-david-dellinger-allen-ginsberg-yippie-robert-mcnamara.shtml

100,000 march on Pentagon, attempt to levitate it (or at least stop the war.)

DECEMBER 28, 1957

USSR performed an atmospheric nuclear test on this date.

"my day" column by eleanor roosevelt for 12/28/57

HYDE PARK—I don't know how other people felt about the report given by the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the NATO conference, but I was not very happy about it.

It is reasonable to expect that the Russians give "clear evidence of integrity, sincerity and a spirit of conciliation," but their leaders might make that same statement about the West.

The President said that during the conference "not once did I hear any slightest hint of sabre rattling or of aggressive intent," and he added that the people of the West were ready "to make the necessary sacrifices to build their strength". Might that statement contradict the first statement?

It is true, I think, that we must have strength, but I think the less we talk about it and the less we stress our military preparations and our missile program, the less we will give the Soviets material for propaganda. Our words in this country have not been centered too much on the peaceful aspects of negotiating a peace.

It is we who have refused to negotiate with the Soviet Union. True, we think they need to show a clear evidence of integrity, but how do they do it? And how do we convince them that we really want to negotiate when we refuse to negotiate their latest offers?

It seems to me that the basic fact we have to face is that if we go on indefinitely arming for war, then war will be the inevitable result. And in this case war means annihilation for the peoples of the world.

Therefore, whether we trust each other or not, it seems to me there is only one thing to do, and that is to go on negotiating. It may seem at times that we are simply standing still, but the mere fact that we talk may bring about a little more understanding between us.

I personally would be happy to see this question discussed constantly in the United Nations. That need not prevent discussion outside of the U.N. as well, but it might mean a little more understanding among other nations of the world about the real intentions of both the United States and Western Allies and the Soviets and the Iron Curtain countries.

We had better face the fact that there is no chance for peace unless somewhere we begin to show confidence in each other, and I would agree that it is difficult to believe that the leaders of the Soviet government really want peace except on their own terms.

If we accepted their terms, they would certainly include recognition of a Communist world, which we cannot accept. If, however, we could agree that within the areas that are free or Communist we would make no effort to make any changes and that both of us would compete openly, not underhandedly and not by force but by persuasion, for the uncommitted areas of the world, then disarmament could really begin.

If either side was found not to be keeping its word and sending in undercover agents, the world would be the judge. Public opinion would be so strongly against the nation that violated an agreement of this type that we could really count on some years of peace and gradually achieve mutual disarmament.

Without continuing negotiation, however, I see very little hope, and I hope we will not wait until we build confidence, which neither of us can have at present.
E. R.

This is the only interesting thing I've found so far:

1976: Notting Hill Carnival ends in riot
More than 100 police officers had to be taken to hospital after clashes at the Notting Hill Carnival in west London.

Most were released after treatment but at least 26 have been detained overnight for observation or further treatment.

Around 60 carnival-goers also needed hospital treatment after the clashes which led to the arrest of at least 66 people.

The trouble is believed to have started after police tried to arrest a pickpocket near Portobello Road on the main carnival route.

Several black youths went to the pickpocket's aid and within minutes the disturbance escalated.

The police were attacked with stones and other missiles.

They armed themselves with dustbin lids, milk crates and wire fencing and charged the rioters.

Selwyn Baptiste, Carnival committee member
At one stage a group of black youths were seen moving up Westbourne Park road smashing windows.

Gangs of white youths were also said to have been involved in the violence.

One witness, Raymond Hunter, who lives in Westbourne Park Road said he saw a police van set alight.

"The two policemen managed to get out of the van and fled. The gang then turned the van over and set fire to it," Mr Hunter said.

The disturbances effectively put an end to the annual celebration of Caribbean culture.

Police sealed off roads and closed pubs in the area as well as shutting down Ladbroke Grove underground station in an attempt to contain the violence.

In the past, the carnival - now in its 10th year - has been largely peaceful in spite of tensions with police.

A member of the Notting Hill Carnival Development Committee, Selwyn Baptiste, said they had been optimistic after the first day of the festival passed off peacefully.

"We had no reason to suppose it would be any different today. This was supposed to be about fun and love - not violence," Mr Baptiste said.

(July 23rd)

On this day in 1984, 21-year-old Vanessa Williams gives up her Miss America title, the first resignation in the pageant's history, after Penthouse magazine announces plans to publish nude photos of the beauty queen in its September issue. Williams originally made history on September 17, 1983, when she became the first black woman to win the Miss America crown. Miss New Jersey, Suzette Charles, the first runner-up and also an African American, assumed Williams' tiara for the two months that remained of her reign.