What Happened on my Birthday May 2

Today is May 2, the 122nd day. There are 243 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On May 2, 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.

May 2 Events

What Happened on my Birthday May 2 in US

1863, Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he died eight days later.
1890, the Oklahoma Territory was organized.
1908, the original version of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," with music by Albert Von Tilzer and lyrics by Jack Norworth, was copyrighted by Von Tilzer's York Music Co.
1957, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Republican from Wisconsin, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1960, Caryl Chessman, who became a best-selling author while on death row for kidnapping, robbery and sexual offenses, was executed at San Quentin Prison in California.
1965, Intelsat 1, also known as the Early Bird satellite, was first used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.
1972, J. Edgar Hoover died in Washington at age 77 after serving 48 years as head of the FBI.
1999 Yugoslav authorities handed over to the Rev. Jesse Jackson three American prisoners of war who'd been held for a month.

What Happened on my Birthday May 2 in UK and Other History

1519, artist Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France, at 67.
1536 Anne Boleyn is arrested, accused by her husband King Henry VIII of adultery and incest
1670, the Hudson Bay Company was chartered by England's King Charles II.
1936, "Peter and the Wolf," a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow.
1999 Actor Oliver Reed died in Malta at age 61 while making the movie "Gladiator."

Famous Birthdays

1936 Singer Engelbert Humperdinck .
1945 Actress and political activist Bianca Jagger
Inventor James Dyson
1946 Actor David Suchet
1951 Broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh
1962 Snooker player Jimmy White
1975 Soccer star David Beckham see picture .
1985 Pop singer Lily Allen.

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What Happened on my Birthday May 1

Today is May 1, the 121st day. There are 244 days left in the year. Did you ever wonder "what happened on my birthday May 1?" "What famous person was born on my birthday May 1", "what historical event took place on the day I was born, May 1?", or "what special celebrations took place during my birth month, May?" This blog offers information about historical happenings and famous birthdays
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May 1 Events

Today is May Day

MayDay is a distress call. The call is always given three times in a row ("Mayday Mayday Mayday" It's from French venez m'aider, meaning 'come help me'. It is the equivalent of SOS or 999

What Happened on my Birthday May 1 in US

1884, construction began on the first skyscraper, a 10-story structure in Chicago built by the Home Insurance Co. of New York.
1893, the World's Columbian Exposition opened to the public in Chicago.
1898, Commodore George Dewey gave the command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," as an American naval force destroyed a Spanish squadron in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
1909, Walter Reed General Hospital (later a part of Walter Reed Army Medical Center) in Washington, D.C., admitted its first patients.
1931, New York's 102-story Empire State Building was dedicated.
1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
1963, James W. Whittaker became the first American to conquer Mount Everest as he and a Sherpa guide reached the summit.
1978, Ernest Morial was inaugurated as the first black mayor of New Orleans.
1982, the 1982 World's Fair opened in Knoxville, Tenn.

1999 Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic agreed to hand over three captured U.S. soldiers to the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

What Happened on my Birthday May 1 in UK and Other History

1707, the Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect.
1786, Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" premiered in Vienna.
2008 Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, died in Altenahr, Germany, at age 90.

Famous Birthdays

1925 Scott Carpenter, Astronaut

1945 Rita Coolidge, Singer
1946 Joanna Lumley, British Actress
1952 Antony Worrall Thompson, British Celebrity Chef
1960 Steve Cauthen, Jockey

Birthday Poems for people born on May 1

It's Rita Coolidge's birthday
A person who's gone far
Coincidentally, it's your birthday
My own Superstar


You just lurve to cook
That's a talent you've got
You share a birthday with Antony Worrell Thompson
So that explains a lot

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What Happened on my Birthday April 30

Today is April 30, the 120th day. There are 245 days left in the year. Did you ever wonder what happened on your birthday April 30? What famous person was born on your birthday, what historical event took place on the day you were born, or what special celebrations took place during your birth month? This blog offers information about historical happenings and famous birthdays
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April 30 Events

Today's Highlight in History:

One hundred and fifty years ago, on April 30, 1859, the Charles Dickens novel "A Tale of Two Cities" was first published in serial form in the premiere issue of All the Year Round, a literary magazine owned by Dickens. (The novel was presented in 31 weekly installments.)

What Happened on my Birthday April 30 in US

1789, George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.
1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million.
1812, Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.
1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened in St. Louis.
1939, the New York World's Fair officially opened with a ceremony that included an address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1948, the Charter of the Organization of American States was signed in Bogota, Colombia.
1970, President Richard M. Nixon announced the U.S. was sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparked widespread protest.
1973, Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean.
1999 The Rev. Jesse Jackson met with each of the three U.S. soldiers being held prisoner by Yugoslavia.
2004 Arabs expressed outrage at graphic photographs of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated by U.S. military police; President George W. Bush condemned the mistreatment of prisoners, saying "that's not the way we do things in America."

What Happened on my Birthday April 30 in UK and Other History

1909, Juliana, queen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980, was born in The Hague.

1945, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun see picture
1999 A bomb exploded at a gay pub in London, killing three people and injuring more than 70. (David Copeland, a white supremacist, was later convicted of murder for a series of bombings in London and sentenced to six life sentences.)

Famous Birthdays

1933 Willie Nelson, US singer
1933 Dickie Davies British TV presenter
1947 Leslie Grantham, British Actor
1958 James Hewitt, once friend of Princess Dianna

Birthday Poems for those born on April 29



It's Willie Nelson's birthday
A person who's gone far
Coincidentally, it's your birthday
My own Superstar


You want to take over the World
That's the aim you've got
Your birthday is Hitler's deathday
So that explains a lot

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What Happened on my Birthday April 30

Today is April 30, the 120th day. There are 245 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:
One hundred and fifty years ago, on April 30, 1859, the Charles Dickens novel "A Tale of Two Cities" was first published in serial form in the premiere issue of All the Year Round, a literary magazine owned by Dickens. (The novel was presented in 31 weekly installments.)
On this date:
In 1789, George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.
In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million.
In 1812, Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.
In 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened in St. Louis.
In 1909, Juliana, queen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980, was born in The Hague.
In 1939, the New York World's Fair officially opened with a ceremony that included an address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1945, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.
In 1948, the Charter of the Organization of American States was signed in Bogota, Colombia.
In 1970, President Richard M. Nixon announced the U.S. was sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparked widespread protest.
In 1973, Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean.
Ten years ago: A bomb exploded at a gay pub in London, killing three people and injuring more than 70. (David Copeland, a white supremacist, was later convicted of murder for a series of bombings in London and sentenced to six life sentences.) The Rev. Jesse Jackson met with each of the three U.S. soldiers being held prisoner by Yugoslavia.
Five years ago: Arabs expressed outrage at graphic photographs of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated by U.S. military police; President George W. Bush condemned the mistreatment of prisoners, saying "that's not the way we do things in America." On ABC's "Nightline," Ted Koppel read aloud the names of 721 U.S. servicemen and women killed in the Iraq war (the Sinclair Broadcast Group refused to air the program on seven ABC stations). Michael Jackson pleaded not-guilty in Santa Maria, Calif., to a grand jury indictment that expanded the child molestation case against him. (Jackson was acquitted at trial.) Former NBA star Jayson Williams was acquitted of aggravated manslaughter in the shotgun slaying of a limousine driver at his New Jersey mansion, but found guilty of trying to cover up the shooting. (Williams faces retrial on a reckless manslaughter count.)
One year ago: The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for a seventh straight time, reducing the federal funds rate a quarter-point to 2 percent. An avalanche in Italy's northwestern Alps killed five French ski-mountaineers.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Cloris Leachman is 83. Singer Willie Nelson is 76. Actor Gary Collins is 71. Actor Burt Young is 69. Singer Bobby Vee is 66. Actress Jill Clayburgh is 65. Movie director Allan Arkush is 61. Actor Perry King is 61. Singer Merrill Osmond is 56. Movie director Jane Campion is 55. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is 50. Actor Paul Gross is 50. FIU coach Isiah Thomas is 48. Country musician Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks) is 47. Actor Adrian Pasdar is 44. Rapper Turbo B (Snap) is 42. Rock musician Clark Vogeler is 40. R&B singer Chris "Choc" Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 38. Rock musician Chris Henderson (3 Doors Down) is 38. Country singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson is 38. Actress Lisa Dean Ryan is 37. R&B singer Akon is 36. R&B singer Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees) is 36. Actor Johnny Galecki is 34. Singer-musician Cole Deggs (Cole Deggs and the Lonesome) is 33. Rapper Lloyd Banks is 27. Actress Kirsten Dunst is 27. Country singer Tyler Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) is 25.

What Happened Birthday April 29

Today is April 29, the 119th day. There are 246 days left in the year
Did you ever wonder what happened on your birthday April 29? What famous person was born on your birthday, what historical event took place on the day you were born, or what special celebrations took place during your birth month? This blog offers information about historical happenings and famous birthdays
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April 29 Events





How Very Odd


The 1st Duke of Wellington was born on April 29 as was Duke Ellington. The only two rhyming Dukes in history and they share the same birthday. You couldn't make it up. I've googled and I'm the only one to comment. If you are reading this after April 29 2009 there be lots of people copycatting but it was here first
Some websites have the Duke of Wellington's birthday as c May 1 but more favour April 29





What Happened on my Birthday April 29 in US

1861 - Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from the Union of the United States.
1862 - New Orleans falls to Union forces during the American Civil War.
1913 - Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey, patents the zipper.
1916 - The Easter Rising in Dublin collapses as Irish nationalists surrender to British authorities.
1918 - Germany's main offensive on Western Front in World War I ends.
1928 - British ultimatum forces Egypt to provide freedom of public meetings.
1931 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover receives the King of Siam. It was the first time an absolute monarch had traveled to the White House.
1945 - U.S. soldiers in Germany liberate 32,000 Nazi victims from a concentration camp in Dachau in World War II; in a Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun and designates Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor. Hitler kills himself the next day.
1946 - Anglo-U.S. committee advises against partition of Palestine; 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.
1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon announces he is releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.
1975 - U.S. task force evacuates foreigners and Vietnamese by helicopter from Saigon.
1992 - A jury in Los Angeles acquits policemen charged with a videotaped beating of black man Rodney King, setting off three days of riots that kill 55 people and causes $1 billion in damage.

What Happened on my Birthday April 29 in UK and Other History


1429 - Joan of Arc enters Orleans, France, and defeats English.
1628 - Sweden and Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein, bringing Sweden into the Thirty Years' War.
1706 - Electors of Bavaria and Cologne are outlawed by Holy Roman Empire.
1781 - French fleet under Admiral Suffren prevents Britain from seizing Cape of Good Hope.
1826 - Liberal constitution is promulgated in Portugal for a hereditary monarchy.
1848 - Pope Pius IX dissociates himself from Italian national movement.

1965 - Australia decides to send troops to South Vietnam.
1973 - Israel decides to expand civil rights of its 336,000 Arab citizens to reward Israeli Arab community for its loyalty.
1981 - Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe admits in a London court to being the "Yorkshire Ripper," the killer of 13 women in northern England during a five-year period.
1989 - Police arrest about 2,200 workers and students in South Korea to try to block labor rally.
1990 - Wrecking cranes tear down the section of the Berlin Wall surrounding the Brandenburg Gate, the wall's most famous section.
1993 - Gunmen in Costa Rica free 18 Supreme Court justices they had held hostage for four days. Police capture the five gunmen after a brief gun battle.
1994 - South Africa's first democratic elections end after an extra day of balloting intended to overcome delays and confusion.
1995 - In Sri Lanka, Tamil separatist rebels down a military jet with a missile, killing 52 people and escalating their 12-year war for a homeland.
1996 - Heavy fighting between rival factions sends civilians fleeing for shelter again as a 10-day-old truce collapses in Monrovia, Liberia.
1997 - Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev go on the first U.S.-Russian space walk.
1998 - Brazil announces an unprecedented plan to protect an area of Amazon forest half the size of France.
2000 - Police in Azerbaijan beat back more than 1,000 demonstrators seeking to stage an unsanctioned opposition rally in the capital Baku.
2003 - Pakistani police in Karachi arrest six suspected members of the al-Qaida terrorist network who allegedly were planning attacks on U.S. targets in Pakistan.
2005 - U.N. peacekeepers sexually abused and exploited local women and girls in Liberia, a U.N. spokesman reports. Allegations that were found to be substantiated in Liberia are the latest to be leveled against U.N. peacekeepers who had been accused of sexually abusing the very people they were sent to protect in missions from Bosnia and Kosovo to Cambodia, East Timor and Congo.
2006 - Bolivian President Evo Morales joins Fidel Castro of Cuba and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in Havana for an endorsement of a socialist trade initiative aimed at providing an alternative to U.S.-backed free trade efforts in Latin America.
2007 - Gunmen seriously wound one of Iraq's best known radio and television journalists, Amal al-Moudares, near her home in the capital. On April 5, Baghdad police found the bullet-ridden body of Khamael Muhsin, another famous radio and TV presenter.
2008 - The United States and France introduce a U.N. resolution that would allow countries to chase pirates off Somalia's coast into the country's territorial waters and arrest the sea thieves.

Famous Birthdays:

1667 John Arbuthnot, English physicist-satirist (1667-1745);
1769 Duke of Wellington
1899 Duke Ellington
1881 Alexander II, czar of Russia (1818-81);
Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (1895-1967)
1901 Japan's Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989);
1931 Lonnie Donegan
1937 Saddam Hussein
1954 Jerry Seinfeld, U.S. comedian (1954--);
1957 Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor
1958 Michelle Pfeiffer, U.S. actress
1970 Uma Thurman, U.S. actress .
1970 Andre Agassi
Birthday Poems for those born on April 29

It's your's and Daniel Day-Lewis' birthday
That's a coincidence, I find
He's talented, rich and good looking
And you're not....arhhhh...never mind
..........I love you, anyway
or

It's Daniel Day-Lewis' birthday
A person who's gone far
Coincidentally, it's your birthday
My own Superstar

and

(Susie), you're a modern woman
And your acting's pretty hot
You share your birthday with Michelle Pfeiffer
So that explains a lot

or

You want to take over the World
That's the aim you've got
You have the same birthdate as Saddam Hussein
So that explains a lot

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What Happened on my Birthday April 28

Today is April 28, the 118th day. There are 247 days left in the year.
Did you ever wonder what happened on your birthday April 28? What famous person was born on your birthday, what historical event took place on the day you were born, or what special celebrations took place during your birth month? This blog offers information about historical happenings and famous birthdays

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What Happened Birthday April 28





Today's Highlight in History





On April 28, 1789, there was a mutiny on HMS Bounty as the crew of the British ship set Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. (Bligh and most of the men with him managed to reach Timor in 47 days.)




What Happened on my Birthday April 28 in US


1758, the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, see picture above, was born in Westmoreland County, Va.
1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1952, war with Japan officially ended as a treaty signed in San Francisco the year before took effect.
1958, the United States conducted the first of 35 nuclear test explosions in the Pacific Proving Ground as part of Operation Hardtack I. Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, began a goodwill tour of Latin America that was marred by hostile mobs in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela.
1967, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army, the same day Gen. William C. Westmoreland told Congress the U.S. "would prevail in Vietnam."
1988, a flight attendant was killed and more than 60 people injured when part of the roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore off during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu.
2008 The first tax rebates were direct-deposited into bank accounts from a $168 billion stimulus package. In a defiant appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, Democrat Barack Obama's longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, said criticism surrounding his fiery sermons was an attack on black churches, and he rejected those who'd labelled him unpatriotic


What Happened on my Birthday April 28 in UK and Other History

1770 Capt James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1918, Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the archduke's wife, Sophie, died in prison of tuberculosis.
1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.
1969, French President Charles de Gaulle resigned. (He was succeeded by Georges Pompidou.)
1996, a man armed with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire on tourists on the Australian island of Tasmania, killing 35 people; Martin Bryant was captured by police after a 12-hour standoff at a guest cottage. (Bryant is serving a life sentence.)
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Famous Birthdays

1442 King Edward IV
Harper Lee, Author is 83.
James A. Baker III, Former Secretary of State is 79.
1948 Terry Pratchitt, English author
1950 Jay Leno, TV Presenter
1958 Hal Sutton, Golfer
1966 John Daly, Golfer
1970 Howard Donald, Member of Take That



Birthday Poems for those born on April 28

It's your's and John Daly's birthday
That's a coincidence, I find
He's talented and rich
And you're not....arhhhh...never mind
..........I love you, anyway

You share a birthday with Howard Donald
A very famous name
He's very slim and earns fat cheques (checks)
And you're sort of...close to being the same



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What Happened Birthday April 27

Today is April 27, the 117th day. There are 248 days left in the year.
Did you ever wonder what happened on your birthday April 27? What famous person was born on your birthday, what historical event took place on the day you were born, or what special celebrations took place during your birth month? This blog offers information about historical happenings and famous birthdays
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April 27 Events


What Happened on my Birthday April 27 in US


1865, the steamer Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn., killing more than 1,400 people, mostly freed Union prisoners of war.
1937 US Social Security system made its 1st benefit payment
1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" was published in US
1973, acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigned after it was revealed that he had handed over bureau files on the Watergate burglary to the Nixon White House.
1978, convicted Watergate defendant John D. Ehrlichman was released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months. Fifty-one construction workers plunged to their deaths when a scaffold inside a cooling tower at the Pleasants Power Station site in West Virginia fell 168 feet to the ground.


What Happened on my Birthday April 27 in UK and Elsewhere

1509, Pope Julius II placed the Republic of Venice under an interdict following its refusal to give up lands claimed by the Papal States. (The pope lifted the sanction the following year.)
1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.
1570 Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I.
1773 British Parliament passed Tea Act that 8 months later led to the Boston Tea Party on 16 December of that year
1828 Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park London, opened
1908 4th modern Olympic games opened in London
1967, Expo '67 was officially opened in Montreal by Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.
1981 Beatle Ringo Starr married actress Barbara Bach

Famous Birthdays April 27

1791 Samuel Morse (telegraph inventor) See Picture above
1822 Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States
1922 Jack Klugman, Actor .
1944 Michael Fish, British TV weatherman
1959 Sheena Easton, Pop singer

Birthday poems for those born on April 27

(Harry), you're so dotty
But do you cut a dash, or what?
Your birthday's shared with Samuel Morse
So that explains a lot

(Susie), you're stunning looking
And your singing's really hot, (not)
Your birthday's shared with Sheena Easton,
So that explains a lot


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