On mine:
The Titanic sank.
DaVinci was born.
Lincoln died and Andrew Johnson became president
People got in trouble with the IRS
Bergen-Belsen was liberated
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB
Woodstock started
Leonhard Euler was born
Johann Friedrich Fasch (Baroque composer) was born
Henry James was born
Emile Durkheim (sociologist) was born
Emma Watson was born
Jean-Paul Sartre died
Edward Gorey died
How about you?
2007-04-21 10:32:06 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I did not know until a minute ago that my birthday is an officially recognised day! Ascension day. Wow. Plus in Doncaster in 1700's a whipping post day was made law! Think I'd rather it was just my special day.
2007-04-21 10:42:12 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is what happend on my birthday, just for the record april 14th. it was also Easter Sunday that day. Im guessing your birthday is April 15. happy belated birthday!
1775
Benjamin Rush was among those who founded the first American antislavery society.
1828
Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary.
1860
The first pony express rider reached his destination of San Francisco. He left St. Joseph, Mo., on April 3.
1865
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1894
The first kinetoscope parlor opened in New York City.
1912
Titanic hit the iceberg that would sink her the next morning.
1969
In a record breaking night at the Academy Awards, a tie between Katherine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand resulted in the two sharing the the Best Actress Oscar and Hepburn broke the record as the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.
2002
Hugo Chávez returned as president of Venezuela after being forced out of office two days previously.
2003
Abu Abbas, the leader of the terrorist group Palestine Liberation Front when the group hijacked the liner Achille Lauro, was captured by U.S. forces in Iraq.
2007-04-21 17:55:40 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ Sparks♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i turned 24.....i dont know what else.......... lookie thomas edison inveted electricity o my birthday.......
1995 Actress Meredith Baxter marries actor Michael Blodgett.
1980 Actor Dustin Hoffman marries attorney Lisa Gottsegen.
1971
US president Richard Nixon nominates Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist to the
Supreme Court.
1969 Jack Kerouac, beat generation novelist, dies.
1967 A Vietnam war protest march draws tens of thousands to Washington, DC.
1966 A mountian of waste coal collapses on a school and residential area in south Wales, killing 140 people, many of them children.
1962 The 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) closes.
1960
The final televised debate takes place between presidential hopefuls senator John F.
Kennedy and US vice president Richard Nixon.
1959 The Guggenheim Museum is dedicated in New York City.
1948 Author Robert A. Heinlein marries Virginia Gerstenfeld.
1945 France extends the right to vote to women.
1944 US troops capture the city of Aachen, Germany, during WWII.
1879 Thomas Edison invents the electric light.
1872 Germany gives the San Juan Islands to the US.
2007-04-21 17:47:31 · answer #3 · answered by MiRaNdA rOsE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On September 17, the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest one-day battle of the American Civil War was fought.
2007-04-21 19:49:15 · answer #4 · answered by caitlin m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1963 Oct 2, Defense Sec. Robert McNamara told Pres. Kennedy in a cabinet meeting that: "We need a way to get out of Vietnam." McNamara proposed to replace the 16,000 US advisors with Canadian personnel.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.A2)
1963 Oct 2, W. German Chancellor Adenauer condemned western grain shipments to USSR.
(MC, 10/2/01)
2007-04-21 18:05:25 · answer #5 · answered by JBWPLGCSE 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Boston founded
US Constitution signed
Battle of Antietam
2007-04-21 18:05:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1779 : Benedict Arnold is court-martialed (Crime)
1809 : Coleridge begins to publish The Friend (Literary)
1812 : Madison declares war (Wall Street)
1862 : Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) concludes (Civil War)
1864 : Battle of Cold Harbor begins (Civil War)
1871 : John Wesley Hardin arrives in Abilene (Old West)
1900 : Future President Hoover caught in Boxer Rebellion (Presidential)
1912 : Zukor forms Famous Players Film Co. (Entertainment)
1916 : Germans launch attack on British lines in Ypres Salient (World War I)
1917 : Cadillac founder resigns (Automotive)
1937 : Colleen McCullough is born (Entertainment)
1941 : Crete falls to German forces (General Interest)
1942 : News of death camp killings becomes public for first time (World War II)
1949 : Lawrence Welk's band debuts on High Life Review (Entertainment)
1958 : De Gaulle reassumes French leadership (General Interest)
1964 : Top U.S. officials meet in Honolulu (Vietnam War)
1965 : Coal mine explosion kills 236 in Japan (Disaster)
1967 : Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released (Entertainment)
1968 : HELEN KELLER DIES: (General Interest)
1971 : Vietnam Veterans group announces support for Nixon (Vietnam War)
1975 : I was born
1977 : Soviets charge Shcharansky with treason (Cold War)
1990 : Superpowers to destroy chemical weapons (General
2007-04-21 20:09:35 · answer #7 · answered by chellyk 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jaques cartier was born
Apollo 16 landed on the Moon
Columbine
Hilter was born
2007-04-21 17:41:40 · answer #8 · answered by Josh R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russians sent first man into space, Yuri Gagarin.
2007-04-21 17:40:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got the smack on the butt to get things going.
2007-04-21 17:45:41 · answer #10 · answered by eks_spurt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋