Happy Birthdays

[texlaw1992]

Ah, so he's only 18 - that explains a lot (lol).

May you have many more.

[Lightwielder]

Ah, so he's only 18 - that explains a lot (lol).

May you have many more.

Eh...what's that supposed to mean?

Thanks, everyone. (Oh, I suppose that means you, too, Texlaw. :))

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 16th, you share your birthdate with:

Roald Amundsen (explorer – discovered the South Pole)
Barbara Stanwyk (actress – Big Valley, Thornbirds, etc)
Ginger Rogers (actress/ dancer – 42nd Street, Top Hat, etc)
O J Simpson (footballer/ actor/ yesterday’s news item)
Stewart Copeland (drummer – Police)
Mickey Rourke (boxer/ actor – 9½ Weeks, The Wrestler, etc)
Will Ferrell (comedian/ actor – Old School, Stanger Than Fiction, etc)

You also share the same date with these events

622: The Moslem Era begins – Mahomet (Muhammad) begins his flight from Mecca to Medina. This is Year 1 of the Moslem calendar.
1439: Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
1904: Islands of the Manu'a group (Samoa) are ceded to the US by their chiefs
1965: Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens
1969: Apollo 11, carrying Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and “Buzz” Aldrin, launches on its Moon mission
1994: Anna Nicole Smith (26) weds ½ billionaire J Howard Marshall II (89)
1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

Happy Birthday Mickey Rourke!

The daily Words of Wisdom
Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. :-Carl Jung

[Young Ned]

Happy birthday, Lightwielder!

Anyway, because I call myself "Kori", I never considered that this was a common American name given to girls. Am I wrong? Is it one of those unisexual names?

I've seen "Cory" as a men's name more than once (for example, Cory Doctorow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow); also see Cory (name) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_%28name%29).) However, it's very common (in the U.S., anyway) to change male names to female names by changing a "y" at the end to an "i". Witness:

Randy -> Randi
Bobby -> Bobbi

and so on. So I can see why people seeing "Kori" might assume it was a female version of "Cory", especially since one of the stars of the popular show Mythbusters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythbusters) is a woman named Kari.

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 17th, you share your birthdate with:

James Cagney (actor – Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mr Roberts, etc)
Phyllis Diller (comedienne/ actress)
Donald Sutherland (actor – Kelly’s Heroes, Space Cowboys, etc)
Spencer Davis (musician/ singer – Spencer Davis Group)
Ali Khamenei (supreme leader of Iran)
Tim Brooke-Taylor (comedian – one of “The Goodies”)
Camilla Parker Bowles (wife to Prince Charles of England)
Bill Ward (drummer – Black Sabbath)
Geezer Butler (bassisit/ lyricist – Black Sabbath)
David Hasselhoff (actor – Baywatch, Nightrider)
Alex Winter (actor – played Bill S Preston esquire in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure)

You also share the same date with these events

180: Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the British in his final act as French emperor
1897: The first ship carrying gold from the Yukon arrives in Seattle.
1938: Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves New York City for Los Angeles... and winds up in Ireland
1968: Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
1976: The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team (because of the decision for the national rugby team to tour apartheid South Africa)
1995: Forbes Magazine announces that Bill Gates is the richest man in world with a fortune of $12.9 billion.

Happy Birthday Alex Winter!

The daily Words of Wisdom
When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man. :-Alain

[thingirl]

180: Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.

Wow. Only around 150 years after Christ died. Cool. (And yes, I checked this fact on Historyorb.com)

[Oldschool]

I've seen "Cory" as a men's name more than once (for example, Cory Doctorow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow); also see Cory (name) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_%28name%29).)

Good point Young Ned about the "i" modifications. I was thinking about a different spelling of Corey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey) by the way.

But to answer your question Badstench - when I think of Kori (however spelled) I think of it as a male name.

[Doolipalally]

Wow. Only around 150 years after Christ died. Cool. (And yes, I checked this fact on Historyorb.com)

Have to say that checking anything on Historyorb.com is not necessarily going to give you anything like accurate results. They seem to be like Wikipedia, in that anyone can contribute stuff, but unlike Wikipedia you get no source attribution, discussion, problems flagged up, etc etc. I went through a stage of sending in corrections, but it got too depressing because there were so many of them.

Not that this thing about the Scillitan martyrs is wrong, just a word of warning!

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 18th, you share your birthdate with:

William Makepeace Thackeray (novelist – Vanity Fair)
Gene Lockhart (actor – A Christmas Carol, Going My Way, etc)
George “Machine Gun” Kelly (gangster)
Nelson Mandela (President of South Africa and Humanist)
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (musician/ singer – I Put a Spell on You)
Hunter S Thompson (journalist/ author – Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas)
Richard Branson (business entrepreneur/ adventurer)
Vin Diesel (actor – Pitch Black, Fast & Furious, etc)
Kristin Bell (actress – Nancy Drew, Heroes, etc)

You also share the same date with these events

64: The year of the great fire of Rome when, according to popular myth, Nero fiddled while he watched. He didn’t.
1872: Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1925: Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler, is published
1942: The first jet fighter, the German Messerschmitt Me-262, makes its test flight
1974: A Polish radio mast becomes the tallest man-built structure of the time at 646m
1976: Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1994: Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter

Happy Birthday Richard Branson!

The daily Words of Wisdom
Time is an illusion. Lunch-time doubly so. :-Douglas Adams

[Oldschool]

If you were born on July 18th, you share your birthdate with:

Vin Diesel (actor – Pitch Black, Fast & Furious, etc)


Gotta give a shout out to a fellow D&D "geek". (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_-DauQi0s)

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 19th, you share your birthdate with:

Samuel Colt (gunsmith – invented the six shooter)
Edgar Degas (impressionist painter)
Lizzie Borden (murderer – she gave her mother forty whacks)
George Hamilton (actor – Love at 1st Bite, etc)
Ilie Nastase (tennis champion)
Brian May (musician/ guitarist – Queen)
Kathleen Turner (actress – Jewel of the Nile, Accidental Tourist, etc)
Mordain (Sryth gamer and forum member)

You also share the same date with these events

1545: King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth
1843: The first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller, the SS Great Britain, is launched. It is the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1879: Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
1966: 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
1976: Rock group, Deep Purple, disbands
1993: President Clinton fires FBI director, William Sessions
1996: The 26th Olympic Games opens in Atlanta, Georgia

Happy Birthday Mordain!

The daily Words of Wisdom
Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass. :-French proverb

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 20th, you share your birthdate with:

Alexander the Great (Macedonian-Greek king and military leader)
Sir Edmund Hilary (1st man to reach the summit of Mt Everest)
Thomas Berger (novelist – Little Big Man, etc)
Natalie Wood (actress – Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause, etc)
Kim Carnes (singer – Bette Davis Eyes, etc)
Carlos Santana (musician/ guitarist extraordinaire)
Paul Cook (drummer – The Sex Pistols)
Chris Cornell (musician/ singer – Soundgarden)
Terri Irwin (Naturalist – wife of Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Man)
Robert Rodriguez (movie director – El Mariachi, Desperado, etc)
Dariel (Sryth gamer and honoured forum member)

You also share the same day with these events:

1871: British Columbia becomes the 6th Canadian province
1924: Teheran, in Persia, comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumours he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1928: The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians. Most of them don’t.
1954: Armistice for Indo-China signed; Vietnam separates into North and South
1968: Jane Asher breaks her engagement to Paul McCartney… on live TV
1969: Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon.
1977: The CIA releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
1999: Falun Gong is banned in the People's Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched.
2000: The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering
2000: Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.

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Today is the last time you will see new additions to the Birthdate entries. The current manifestation of this thread was begun on July 15, 2009, and has now been a little more than 1 year in existence. As such, the historical birthdates and events have already been noted, and continuing with the thread in this format would simply be a repetition of the past.

Individual dates still exist for people to access and reference (if you can spend a few minutes trawling through all the posts to find the relevant date).

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the daily lists as much as I’ve enjoyed bringing them to you. I would like to thank Doolipalally for filling in when ‘Real Life’ demanded my attention, and to everyone who offered corrections and advice when the reference site proved not to be wholly accurate.

The winding-up of the ‘daily lists’ doesn’t preclude your offer of birthday wishes to individuals as those dates fall due. The recognition between individual members has been a part of this forum that has added to the spirit of community and friendship, and is something I would like to see continue.

In closing, I wish everyone happiness today, tomorrow and whatever your special day is in the year ahead.

And also send a special shout out to…

Happy Birthday Dariel!

[Oldschool]

Closed this thread since Badstench has started another. If you want to wish anyone acknowledged here recently a Happy Birthday please do so in the new thread.

Kudos to Badstench for keeping us so well entertained with this thread and for gracing us with another.