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What cool happened or who was born on your birthday? Just wikipedia your bday

Mine (January 19)
Robert E. Lee was born
Edgar Allen Poe was born
Some guy won $1 on Jeporady
The guy who plays Chad Vader was born (lol)
Junior Seau was also born

On my birthday, March 9:

-The Barbie Doll debuted!
-Amerigo Vespucci was born
-Charlie Gibson was born
-Terry Mulhollan was born
-Benito Santiago was born
-Aaron Boone was born
-Clay Rapada was born
-Bow Wow was born
-It is also Baron Bliss Day in the country of Belize, whatever that means.

On August 20:
-The Battle of Fallen Timbers took place.
-Charles Floyd died during the Lewis and Clark expedition, the only casualty of the expedition.
-President Andrew Johnson officially declares the Civil War over.
-Lou Gherig hit his 23rd career grand slam, a record which still stands today.
-A ceasefire is agreed to in the Iran-Iraq war.
-Greg Nettles is born.
-The 2009-2010 school year starts in my district

All i feel like saying:
January 4th
My b-day
Don Shula, winningest coach in NFL history was born
Garrison Hearst (great RB in his prime for the 49ers) was born

No way, that's my brothers birthday!

Mine: October 25
1147 – The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
1147 – Seljuk Turks completely annihilate German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1315 – Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea, and William Bradshaw led an attack on Liverpool Castle.
1415 – The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the Western Australian coast.
1747 – British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
1760 – George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1813 – War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
1828 – The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
1854 – The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1917 – Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.
1920 – After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
1935 – Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
1938 – The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
1944 – The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers occupation.
1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.
1945 – The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
1962 – Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
1962 – Uganda joins the United Nations.
1970 – The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley is the first submarine to sink a ship in warfare.
1971 - Pedro Martinez was born
1982 - Jerome Carter was born
1984 - Katy Perry was born
2004 – Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.

August 16:
1930- Frank Gifford is born.
1948- Babe Ruth dies.
1953- Kathie Lee Gifford is born.
1954- The first edition of SI is published.
1958- Madonna is born.
1962- Steve Carell is born. (The guy from The Office)
1977- Elvis Presley dies.
1983- Colt Brennan is born.
1986- Yu Darvish is born.
1987- Carey Price is born.
1991- Shamu dies.

I guess my birthday wasn't too boring.