The Birthday Box

[Cress]

WOOT! September bdays. Did anyone here know that September used to be the 5th month?

[Not So Silent One]

My birthday is November 30th. My last birthday party was amazing, it was my sweet sixteen, and my parents threw a surpirse party for me(with the help of one of my best friends)When I got out of school there was a limo waiting outside for me!!!! It was amazing, never gonna happen again, but AMAZING!!!


I have a friend who's birthday is the same as my parents anniversary, I think it's creepy myself, but my parents think it's funny

[Cress]

Yeah, that would be me NASA. The first time I went over to her house I looked at the date next to the door and was like "Why is my birthday written on your house?"

Hehe...the look on your face was priceless though. So very, very priceless. Fields of Marshall!!!!!! Marshall was our limo driver. He kicked butt.

[Kathy Li]

Originally posted by Cress:
WOOT! September bdays. Did anyone here know that September used to be the 5th month?

Seventh. Sept=7, just like Oct=8 and Nov=9. Then the name-a-month-after-me emperors (Julius & Augustus) screwed up the order. Man, I wish I could remember important stuff the way I remember junk-factoids like this...

[Cress]

Well then apparently Scott Westerfield had it screwed up...cause he said 5th. Ohs nos.

[wizy123]

i know im late but happy b-day mel

Originally posted by Cress:
WOOT! September bdays. Did anyone here know that September used to be the 5th month?

really where did you find that out... i thought they stayed the same...

[Cress]

Well they had different calenders originally...and as kli said, they named a bunch of months after emperors which screwed up order and I think it added a month too.

[Kessa Cirtos]

I am born on the day that all of this happens:

1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.

1568 - The entire population of the Netherlands - three million people - was sentenced to death by the Roman Catholic Church for heresy; see Eighty Years' War.

1804 - First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.

1852 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.

1857 - The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, DC, becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf.

1859 - The French Government passes a law to set the A-note above middle C to a frequency of 435 Hz, in an attempt to standardize the pitch.

1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.

1868 - In New York City the Jolly Corks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE). [Lol.]

1899 - President Félix Faure of France dies in office.

1918 - The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.

1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

1934 - Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund

1934 - Commission of Government sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of Newfoundland.

1936 - Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.

1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.

1940 - World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.

1943 - World War II: USSR reconquers Kharkov.

1945 - World War II: American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines.

1945 - World War II: First American Aircraft carrier strikes on Tokyo.

1945 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula.

1947 - Canadians granted Canadian citizenship after 80 years of being British subjects. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King become the first Canadian citizen.

1957 - The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television closedown between 6.00pm and 7.00pm was abolished in the United Kingdom

1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.

1961 - Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) launched.

1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.

1978 - The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).

1983 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.

1985 - The founding of Hezbollah. [Heh.]

1987 - The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.

2003 - Serbian Wikipedia is born. [Very cool.]

2005 - The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labour dispute.

2006 - The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

[Sean L.]

Thank you wikipedia, that would be February 16th, then.

You forgot this:

2007 - The U.S. House of Representatives passes resolution opposing President George W. Bush's proposed troop surge, regarding the Iraq conflict.

[spyells]

My birthday is July 21. I'm going to be sixteen this year. I can't wait!

[Elder Math]

My birthday is March 4th. I was born 1980 and am a Pisces Sun with a Leo Rising. This means I have a bad tendency to focus attention on myself, like to think my ideas are the best ideas, and have a tendency to escape into my fantasies.(Don't worry, there are good things too.)

I am 27. I don't really care too much about birthdays, but enjoy any situation that causes my friends to come together and celbrate.

[Kessa Cirtos]

LOL@Sean.

I didn't forget it, I left it out on purpose since I wasn't sure if it was something that might spike up conflicted feelings.

Then again...

Some of the other stuff might offend another's delicate sensibilities.

*Edited in afterthought.

[Rubywolf]

We will be celebrating my exdog's tenth birthdaty next month. As fat and unhealthy as that pomeranian-poodle is, doubt he'll llive to be eleven. Sadly. He is still cute, though. The only person he doesn'tbite is... me! I'm rather good with dogs....

[wizy123]

hey Kessa why would you give us a bunck of dates? i mean gawd.lol its ok acually thats somthing i would do... lol so anyones birthday comming up this mounth exept mine and spyells

[Dragon Writer]

exdog? *wonders at this* well, happy birthday to you're dog! i knew a dog at least that old once...it loved me dearly, and it couldn't play aorund that much anymore...but it always wanted too.