How politically/culturally significant is your Birthday?

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1000-1899
1000 - Battle of Swold 
1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III 
1513 - In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland was defeated. 
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling. 
1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupted near Charleston 
1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new country the United States. 
1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph. 
1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state. 
1850 - The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt. 
1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee. 
1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence. 
1870 - Redmond, Washington founded 
1886 - The Berne Convention is finalized. 
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1900-1999
1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. 
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company formed. 
1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon. 
1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy. 
1944 - World War II: Bulgaria is liberated by Russia. 
1945 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" - a moth lodged in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard. 
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is created. 
1954 - Marilyn Bell swam for 20 hours and 57 minutes under grueling conditions to become the first person to swim across Lake Ontario 
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. 
1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established. 
1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson. 
1971 - Attica Prison riots 
1983 - Aaron Pryor beats Alexis Arguello by knockout in round ten of a rematch of their 1982 controversial fight, dubbed The Battle of The Champions. 
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2000-2099
2001, 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium. 
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan. 
2004 - A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing several people. 
2004 - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Colic to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Colic will be replaced. 
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Births
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1300-1899
1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria 
1466 - Ashikaga Yo********ane, Ashikaga shogun (d. 1523) 
1585 - Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman. (d. 1642) 
1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798) 
1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817) 
1755 - Benjamin Bourne, politician (d. 1808) 
1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian musician (d. 1896) 
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace) (d. 1910) 
1849 - Lucy Rider Meyer, physician, social worker, educator, Methodist deaconess 
1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921) 
1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, writer (d. 1934) 
1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943) 
1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, poet 
1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987) 
1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980) 
1894 - Arthur Freed, songwriter and film producer (d. 1973) 
1898 - Frankie Frisch, baseball player 
1899 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1984) 
1899 - Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966) 
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1900-1999
1903 - Phyllis Whitney, mystery writer 
1905 - Joseph Levine, film producer 
1911 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002) 
1918 - Jimmy Snyder, bookmaker, sports commentator 
1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1976 
1924 - Jane Greer, actress 
1925 - Cliff Robertson, Academy Award-winning actor. 
1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, jazz musician (d. 1975) 
1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor 
1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican world champion boxer 
1941 - Peter Bonetti, British soccer goalkeeper 
1941 - Otis Redding, singer and songwriter (d. 1967) 
1941 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist 
1946 - Billy Preston, musician 
1949 - Joe Theismann, American football star, sports commentator. 
1951 - Tom Wopat, actor and singer. 
1951 - Michael Keaton, actor 
1952 - David A. Stewart, musician, Eurythmics 
1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor 
1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor (Nine Months, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary) 
1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger 
1966 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore, 50 First Dates) 
1970 - Macy Gray, singer 
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Deaths
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700-1899
701 - Pope Sergius I 
1000 - Olaf I of Norway 
1087 - King William I of England 
1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany, from a fall from a horse 
1513 - King James IV of Scotland 
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1900-1999
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter 
1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, railroad entrepreneur 
1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer 
1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911) 
1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader 
1978 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder 
1980 - John Howard Griffin, writer (b. 1920) 
1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress 
1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian president 
1990 - Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball center fielder (b. 1905) 
1993 - Helen O'Connell, Big-band singer 
1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor 
1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Baseball Hall of Famer 

2000-2099
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader 
2003 - Larry Hovis, actor 
2003 - Edward Teller, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb" 

Holidays and observances
National Day in Bulgaria (1944) 
National Day in North Korea (1948) 
Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991)

Nothing incredibly significant there, apart from Mao dying, that one surprised me!

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1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris. 
1477 - Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy becomes part of France. 
1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan. 
1527 - Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist. 
1554 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands. 
1675 - Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg. 
1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis. 
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold. 
1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom. 
1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead. 
1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. 
1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. 
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. 
1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. 
1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor. 
1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States. 
1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. 
1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. 
1944 - The London Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper. 
1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. 
1948 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl). 
1956 - Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel." 
1957 - Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires. 
1961 - Television: Mr. Ed debuts. 
1964 - Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439. 
1968 - Alexander Dubček comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia. 
1970 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres. 
1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program. 
1973 - Netherlands recognizes East Germany. 
1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. 
1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea. 
1980 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer. 
1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU. 
1987 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health. 
1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil. 
1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965). 
1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. 
1997 - Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. 
2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit. 
2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack. 

Births
1596 - Henry Lawes, English composer (d. 1662) 
1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793) 
1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820) 
1779 - Zebulon Pike, American explorer (d. 1813) 
1811 - Cyrus Hamlin, educator, inventor, architect, Christian missionary 
1855 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932) 
1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920) 
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (d. 1967) 
1880 - Nikolay Medtner, Russian composer (d. 1951) 
1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952) 
1900 - Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter (d. 1955) 
1904 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997) 
1909 - Stephen Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994) 
1910 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949) 
1913 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001) 
1914 - George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959) 
1915 - Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born American cartographer (d. 2004) 
1920 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995) 
1921 - Friedrich D**rrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990) 
1923 - Sam Phillips, American country music producer (d. 2003) 
1926 - Maria Schell, Austrian-born Swiss actress 
1928 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984 
1928 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979) 
1931 - Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989) 
1931 - Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist 
1931 - Robert Duvall, American actor and director 
1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian philologist and writer 
1932 - Raisa Gorbachev, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999) 
1938 - King Juan Carlos of Spain 
1941 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese animated film maker 
1941 - Grady Thomas, singer (P-Funk) 
1942 - Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist 
1942 - Charlie Rose, American talk show host 
1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress 
1948 - Ted Lange, American actor 
1953 - George Tenet, director of the CIA 
1961 - Suzy Amis, actress 
1962 - Joe Monzo, American microtonal composer and tuning-theorist 
1969 - Marilyn Manson, American singer 
1975 - Bradley Cooper, American actor 
1982 - Janica Kostelic, Croatian alpine skier 

Deaths
842 - Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph 
1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England since 1042 
1387 - Pedro IV of Aragon (b. 1320) 
1589 - Catherine de Medici, Queen of France (b. 1519) 
1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574) 
1740 - Antonio Lotti, composer (b. 1667) 
1858 - Johann Radetzky, Austrian field marshal (b. 1769) 
1891 - Emma Abbott, American opera singer (b. 1849) 
1922 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer (b. 1874) 
1929 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia 
1933 - Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States (b. 1872) 
1941 - Amy Johnson, aviator (1903) 
1943 - George Washington Carver, educator, activist, botanist (1860) 
1956 - Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois), French singer (b. 1875) 
1963 - Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896) 
1970 - Max Born, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954 (b. 1882) 
1970 - Roberto Gerhard, composer 
1970 - Jock Yablonski, president of the United Mine Workers, is discovered dead with his family 
1971 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (b. 1899) 
1979 - Charles Mingus, musician (b. 1922) 
1981 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist (b. 1901) 
1988 - Pete Maravich, Basketball Hall of Famer (b. 1947) 
1994 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, Speaker of the House (b. 1912) 
1996 - Yahya Ayyash, terrorist (b. 1966) 
1998 - Sonny Bono, singer, actor, United States Representative (b. 1935) 
2002 - Igor Cassini, gossip columnist ("Cholly Knickerbocker") 
2003 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920) 
2004 - Tug McGraw, baseball pitcher (b. 1944) 

Holidays and observances
The Twelfth Night of Christmas in Western Christianity. 
Catholicism - Feast day of St. John Neumann. 
Mungday (Discordianism)
Meh.

None of that tops the fourth day of the Sydney Test each year.
 
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