Anything cool happen on your birthday?
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The good...
1966: United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott, aboard Gemini 8, achieve the first linkup of a crewed spacecraft with another object, an Agena rocket.
1971: Simon and Garfunkel win the Grammy Award for Best Album for Bridge Over Troubled Water and the Grammy for Best Record for the title song.
...and the crappy:
1968: United States soldiers massacre hundreds of men, women, and children at the village of My Lai, in South Vietnam.
This from the guy with September 11th as a wedding anniversary.
1966: United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott, aboard Gemini 8, achieve the first linkup of a crewed spacecraft with another object, an Agena rocket.
1971: Simon and Garfunkel win the Grammy Award for Best Album for Bridge Over Troubled Water and the Grammy for Best Record for the title song.
...and the crappy:
1968: United States soldiers massacre hundreds of men, women, and children at the village of My Lai, in South Vietnam.
This from the guy with September 11th as a wedding anniversary.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Sir Winston Churchill
Some pretty cool people were born on the same day as me...
César Chávez and Renes Descarte
and this is pretty cool:
1774: British Parliament responds to the Boston Tea Party by passing the Boston Port Act, which closes the port of Boston; Americans regard this as the first of the so-called "Intolerable Acts."
1870: Thomas Peterson Mundy of New Jersey becomes the first black man to cast a ballot after the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives blacks the right to vote.
César Chávez and Renes Descarte
and this is pretty cool:
1774: British Parliament responds to the Boston Tea Party by passing the Boston Port Act, which closes the port of Boston; Americans regard this as the first of the so-called "Intolerable Acts."
1870: Thomas Peterson Mundy of New Jersey becomes the first black man to cast a ballot after the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives blacks the right to vote.
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1807: The United States Congress abolishes the slave trade, effective January 1, 1808.
1836: Texas declares its independence from Mexico; the United States does not recognize the new Republic of Texas.
1877: On the basis of its committee's recommendation, the United States Congress rewards all 20 disputed electoral votes in the previous December's presidential election to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
1836: Texas declares its independence from Mexico; the United States does not recognize the new Republic of Texas.
1877: On the basis of its committee's recommendation, the United States Congress rewards all 20 disputed electoral votes in the previous December's presidential election to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
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1985: The AIDS crisis gains widespread public attention following the death of American actor Rock Hudson, the first celebrity to publicly announce that he had AIDS.
1986: The U.S. Senate votes to impose economic sanctions on South Africa, overturning a presidential veto.
Yay... I get all the happy crap.
1986: The U.S. Senate votes to impose economic sanctions on South Africa, overturning a presidential veto.
Yay... I get all the happy crap.
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I share a birthday with Tom Waits. 
1917: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary. (Hello, WW1)
1941: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1972: Apollo 17, the sixth and last of the Apollo landing missions, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1917: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary. (Hello, WW1)
1941: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1972: Apollo 17, the sixth and last of the Apollo landing missions, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
"Eccentrics are individuals whose rich imaginations outstrip their
surroundings." -Lord Whimsy
surroundings." -Lord Whimsy
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1776: American forces under George Washington cross the Delaware River at night, and raid British Hessian mercenaries at the Battle of Trenton the next day.
1868: By presidential proclamation, President Andrew Johnson grants unqualified amnesty to all those who participated in the rebellion against the United States.
1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Soviet president, and Communist Russia ceases to exist.
1868: By presidential proclamation, President Andrew Johnson grants unqualified amnesty to all those who participated in the rebellion against the United States.
1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Soviet president, and Communist Russia ceases to exist.
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