Your birthday

You win, IJAG.

 

I know. So psyched. I'll be visiting my folks and will drive the 20 miles to Taco Bell for lunch that day. Count it.

 

November 27

Jimi Hendrix, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Bruce Lee, Eddie Rabbitt, Kathryn Bigelow, one of the Menendez brothers, a victim of Jack the Ripper, Alison Pill and Jaleel White

People who died on my birthday:
Harvey Milk, Sean Taylor, Irvin Kershner (Director of Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back)

 

Ted Bundy was executed on my birthday.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

 

april 9:

hugh hefner and jenna jameson plus AVERY SCHREIBER!

and Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox in 1865.

 

Feb. 27

Share birthdays with Emperor Constantine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hugo Black, David Sarnoff, John Steinbeck, John Connally, Elizabeth Taylor, Ralph Nader, Howard Hesseman, Lee Atwater, Johnny Van Zant, James Worthy, Donal Logue, Matt Stairs, Tony Gonzalez, Chelsea Clinton, and Josh Groban.

Deaths include Louis Vuitton, Henry Cabot Lodge, Lillian Gish, J.T. Walsh, William F. Buckley, and Duke Snider.

Other events on that date include:

380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
1939 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1973 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".

 

One of my nephews was born Feb. 29, 2008.

Shared birthdays: Dinah Shore, Ja Rule, Sir James Wilson
Deaths: Davy Jones, Sir James Wilson
Events: Hattie McDaniel becomes first African American to win an Academy Award, Gordie Howe scored his 800th goal.

Also, Feb. 29 is Rare Disease Day.

 

A lot of folks here born on the 9th.

 

June 23

Clarence Thomas shares my birthday

 

June 30. Fiscal year ends on that date. As far as I can tell, that's its biggest historical claim to fame.

 

And William Holden died.