If you go to Wikipedia and look up your birthdate (minus the year)- it’ll give you a list of events and things that took place on that date. And I discovered one very important event that took place on my birthday:
1977 – TV character, Fonzie jumps a shark on water skis in an episode of Happy Days.
That’s right. Fonzie jumped the shark on my birthday.
1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match.
1998 – Baseball: After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.
2000 – Last performance of the musical Cats (musical) on Broadway.
Births:
1878 – Upton Sinclair, American writer and politician
1928 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist (oh, boy)
1948 – George R. R. Martin, American writer
Deaths:
1863 – Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)
1973 – Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
Holidays:
* In ancient Greece, the seventh day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began.
* Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: o The Korean Martyr o Eustace o Vincent Madelgaire o Yves Mayeuc o Francis de Posadas o Thomas Johnson, John Davy, and companions (martyrs).
* Feast day of the following saint(s) in the Anglican Church o John Coleridge Patteson