RF Generation Message Board

Today is the 116th birthday of Argentine's oldest citizen, Adolf Hitler. Which seemed like a good enough reason to ask the people here: who or what do you share a birthday with?

I suggest checking wikipedia for events that happened on particular days.

I share a birthday with:
The soviet union (1922)
Emperor Titus (39)
Rudyard Kipling (1865)
Dell Shanon (1934)

I don't feel like checking out Wikipedia right now, but off the top of my head I know that on my birthday:

Nelson Mandela spoke at Tiger Stadium in Detroit
Striptease was released  |D
And the Halo 2 DLC becomes free.

Too many to list on my birthday. And a whole lot of events..


I share my birthday with 1925 - Mel Torme, singer (d. 1999)   :D

November 12

Events
1918 - Austria becomes a republic.

1927 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

1934 - The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief

1936 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.

1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

2002 - Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is released.

Birthdays

1929 - Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (d. 1982)

1934 - Charles Manson, American cult leader and mass murderer

1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician

1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast

1966 - David Schwimmer, American actor

1968 - Sammy Sosa, Dominican baseball player

1970 - Tonya Harding, American figure skater

April 10

Events
1912 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England.
1916 - The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City by 82 charter members.
1944 - Henry Ford II is named executive vice president of Ford Motor Company.
1953 - The House of Wax opens at New York City's Paramount Theater (it was the first color feature in 3-D).
1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.
1972 - Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967 American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.

Births
1829 - William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (d. 1912)
1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, journalist and publisher (d. 1911)
1870 (O.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1924)  
1915 - Harry Morgan, actor
1921 - Chuck Connors, actor, baseball player (d. 1992)
1929 - Max von Sydow, actor
1932 - Omar Sharif, actor
1936 - John Madden, American football coach, broadcaster
1938 - Don Meredith, American football quarterback, Monday Night Football broadcaster
1951 - Steven Seagal, actor
1960 - Brian Setzer, musician
1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician, activist

Deaths
1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, original bass player for The Beatles (b. 1940)
1969 - Harley J. Earl, automobile designer, father of the Chevrolet Corvette
1992 - Sam Kinison, American comedian
2000 - Larry Linville, actor
2001 - Willie Stargell, baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1940)

April 29

Events
* 1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc relieves Orléans from English siege.
* 1661 - China's Ming Dynasty occupies Taiwan.
* 1672 - Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
* 1861 - American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union
* 1862 - American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
* 1903 - A 30,000,000-cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
* 1916 - Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
* 1945 - World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
* 1945 - Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and he designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
* 1945 - Holocaust: The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
* 1946 - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.
* 1960 - Payola Scandal: Radio disk jockey Dick Clark denies involvement in the scandal in front of a United States House of Representatives subcommittee.
* 1967 - After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
* 1970 - Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
* 1974 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
* 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind - The last American citizens begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes to an end.
* 1988 - Glasnost: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev promises increased religious freedoms. (My Date of Birth)
* 1991 - Richard Cheney gives a speech at the Washington Institute's Soref Symposium explaining why he believed it would have been "a mistake" to invade Iraq.
* 1992 - 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people will be killed and hundreds of buildings will be destroyed.
* 1997 - The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
* 2004 - Richard Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.

Births
* 1893 - Harold Urey, American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (d. 1981)
* 1901 - Hirohito, Japanese emperor (d. 1989)
* 1918 - George Allen, American football coach, Pro Football Hall of Famer (d. 1990)
* 1951 - Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR racer (d. 2001)
* 1952 - David Icke, British conspiracy writer
* 1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
* 1955 - Kate Mulgrew, American actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
* 1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
* 1967 - Curtis Joseph, Canadian NHL goalie
* 1969 - Master P, rap musician, composer, actor, athlete, sports agent
* 1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
* 1970 - Uma Thurman, actress
* 1975 - Eric Koston, professional skateboarder

Deaths
* 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, director (b. 1899)

February 24th in History
1938: Nylon's first commercial use, in toothbrush bristles
1946: Juan Peron elected as the President of Argentina
1968: Discovery of the first pulsar in space
1969: Mariner 6, first spacecraft to fly by Mars, launched
1991: In its first free elections since the collapse of communism, Lithuania rejects the Communist Party

February 24th birthdays
1786: Wilhelm Grimm, Author of fairy tales
1885: Chester Nimitz, United States navy admiral
1932: Michel Legrand, French film composer
1955: Alain Prost, French Formula 1 racing driver

Events - November 16th
1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa. (Bastard.)
1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo.
1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University. (More bastards.)

Birthdays - November 16th
42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
1924 - James Bond, fictional character (Damn it.)
1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, video game legend (Neener neener neener!  My birthday is cooler than yours!)
1984 - Michael Collins, RF Generation co-webmaster

Events - April 19
1775 - American Revolution Begins in Lexington Common
1782 - Netherlands Recognizes the US as a country
1897 - First Boston Marathon
1933 - US money becomes no longer backed by gold
1939 - Connectitcut confirms the Bill of Rights (138 Years Late)
1948 - ABC Begins Broadcasting
1953 - What would become CBS begins broadcasting
1967 - Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (Oops!)
1973 - George Steinbrenner begins his way to becoming the most Powerful Man in Baseball
1995 - Murrah Federal Building is destroyed in Oklahoma City, OK
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI elected, turns out to be really, really old.

Holidays
Cuba - Bay of Pigs Victory Day

Birthdays / Deaths
No one of major importance was born or died on my birthday. A pity.

Who?

uh, you share your birthday with your self?

Yes.  Yes, I do.

I believe he's an assistant of Yu Suzuki.

ohhhhh OK . Thanks

May 18 1980 - Mt. St. Helens blew it's top. My family says it was the world's way of sayin "the bitch is here"...hehe

I don't care about famous people and events though so I share a birthday with my best Halo bud's best real life bud. I thought that was pretty damn kewl.

I cut out most stuff:

Events
1156 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland.
1265 - In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now also known as the Houses of Parliament.
1320 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
1783 - Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the Revolutionary War.
1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
1887 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
1892 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.
1929 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
1936 - Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
1937 - The coldest temperature in California is recorded by Boca station at -45° Fahreinheit.
1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
1942 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide the "final solution to the Jewish problem".
1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
1945 - Hungary drops out of the Second World War, agreeing an armistice with the Allies.
1952 - Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France.
1958 - Elvis Presley receives his draft notice.
1964 - Meet the Beatles, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released.
1969 - The first pulsar is discovered, in the Crab Nebula.
1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr., day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.

Births
225 - Gordian III, Roman emperor (d. 244)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1490)
1929 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, NASCAR race car driver (d. 1964)
1930 - Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
1951 - Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest)
1952 - Paul Stanley, musician, of the rock band KISS
1979 - Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)

Deaths
1479 - John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
1612 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
1891 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii
1907 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table (b. 1834)
1936 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
1944 - James McKeen Cattell, first professor of Psychology in U.S. (b. 1860)
1984 - Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimming gold medalist, actor (b. 1904)

Ok, here's my full "stats" from da wiki:

Events
1593 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
1652 - Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
1631 - In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
1765 - Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
1783 - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
1803 - Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.
1848 - Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1863 - American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins, ending on July 4).
1869 - Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.
1896 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate but equal is constitutional.
1900 - The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
1910 - The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
1917 - World War I: The Selective Service Act passes the U.S. Congress giving the President the power of conscription.
1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California, beach.
1927 - The Bath School Disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school board member in Michigan.
1933 - New Deal: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Germans evacuate Monte Cassino and Allied forces take the stronghold after a struggle that claimed 20,000 lives.
1944 - Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
1944 - World War II: SS troops burn down six villages in the Brkini hills in south western Slovenia.
1948 - The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
1953 - Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour (1049.835 km/h) at Rogers Dry Lake, California).
1958 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 launches.
1974 - Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
1974 - Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991.
1980 - 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
1995 - Alain Juppé becomes Prime Minister of France.
1998 - Microsoft antitrust case: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.
2004 - Randy Johnson pitches a perfect game for the Arizona Diamondbacks vs. the Atlanta Braves.
[edit]
Births
1048 - Omar Khayyam, Persian poet (d. 1123)
1711 - Rudjer Josip Boscovich, Croatian atomic theorist (d. 1787)
1778 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British noble
1785 - John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
1797 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854)
1850 - Oliver Heaviside, physicist (d. 1925)
1872 - Lord Bertrand Russell, mathematician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1950 (d. 1970)
1883 - Walter Gropius, architect, founder of Bauhaus (d. 1969)
1889 - Thomas Midgley, chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
1891 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
1892 - Pops Foster, jazz musician (assumed birthdate) (d. 1969)
1892 - Ezio Pinza, Italian-born bass opera singer (d. 1957)
1897 - Frank Capra, producer, director, writer (d. 1991)
1902 - Meredith Willson, composer (d. 1984)
1911 - Big Joe Turner, blues singer (d. 1985)
1912 - Walter Sisulu, anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003)
1912 - Perry Como, singer (d. 2001)
1918 - George Welch, pilot and war hero (d. 1954)
1919 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer (d. 1991)
1920 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
1920 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1922 - Kai Winding, jazz musician (d. 1983)
1928 - Pernell Roberts, actor
1931 - Don Martin, cartoonist (d. 2000)
1931 - Robert Morse, actor
1937 - Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer
1937 - Jacques Santer, Luxembourg statesman
1939 - Hark Bohm, film director
1942 - Albert Hammond, musician, composer
1944 - Justus Frantz, pianist
1946 - Reggie Jackson, Baseball Hall of Famer
1949 - Rick Wakeman, musician ("Yes"), composer
1949 - Bill Wallace, musician The Guess Who, Winnipeg
1950 - Thomas Gottschalk, show master
1950 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (d. 1997)
1950 - Mark Mothersbaugh, composer, musician
1952 - George Strait, country musician
1955 - Chow Yun-Fat, actor
1960 - Jari Kurri, Hockey Hall of Famer
1960 - Yannick Noah, tennis player
1969 - Martika, Cuban-American singer
1970 - Tina Fey, writer, comedienne, actress
1975 - John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
1975 - Jack Johnson, musician
1978 - Ricardo Carvalho, football player
1982 - Eric West, singer, actor
[edit]
Deaths
1799 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (b. 1732)
1807 - John Douglas, Anglican bishop (b. 1721)
1808 - Elijah Craig, important to the invention of bourbon
1900 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
1909 - George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
1910 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer, composer (b. 1821)
1911 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1956 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
1973 - Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives (b. 1880)
1975 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
1980 - Ian Curtis, musician Joy Division (b. 1956)
1981 - William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908)
1988 - Daws Butler, voice actor (b. 1916)
1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (b. 1933)
1995 - Alexander Godunov, ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
1995 - Elisha Cook Jr., actor
1999 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
1999 - Betty Robinson, Olympic runner (b. 1911)
2000 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946)
2003 - Anna Santisteban, organizer of the Miss Universe contest (b. 1914)
2003 - Barb Tarbox, anti-smoking crusader (b. 1961)
2004 - Elvin Jones, jazz drummer (b. 1927)

Nice, Ian Curtis killed himself the day you were born. Not very surprising actually ;)