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Share with us 3 Events, 2 Births, and 1 Holiday that occured on your birthday.
Share with us 3 Events, 2 Births, and 1 Holiday that occured on your birthday.
Events:
- 461 - St. Hilarius becomes Pope.
- 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
- 1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
Births:
- 1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress
- 1997 - McCaughey septuplets, world's first surviving set of septuplets
Holiday:
- Trinidad and Tobago - International Men's Day
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Events:
1. 1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
2. 1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
3. 1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
Births:
1. 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
2. 1961 - Debbi Peterson, American singer (The Bangles)
Holiday:
1. Roman Catholic feast - Mary Queen of angels, Immaculate Heart
284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor.
1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1955 - Bo Diddley becomes the first African American performer to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Apparently Sullivan was infuriated when Diddley sang his self-titled song instead of Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit, "Sixteen Tons".
1956 - Bo Derek, American actress
1939 - Dick Smothers, American comedian
1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
Church of England - Edmund the Martyr
Events:
# 1497 - John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a 2 May date).
# 1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
Births:
1554 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer
1899 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter
1946 - Cher, American singer
Holiday
# National Day in Cameroon
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LOTS to choose from!
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