This Saturday 10-12-13 will undoubtedly be the best day ever to celebrate a birthday. In fact, there is no better day that I can think of to celebrate my very special day. Well, perhaps 11/12/13, but that would then make me a Scorpio I am prefer being a Libra.
It is not only my birthday, but these were also notable events on this date in history.
Columbus reaches the New World, 1492
British troops head up East River, 1776
Silent-film star Tom Mix dies in Arizona car wreck; brained by "Suitcase of Death" 1940
Confederate leader Robert E. Lee dies, 1870
Nikita Khrushchev throws a tantrum at the United Nations, 1960
The victim of an anti-gay assault dies, 1998
Fire rages in Minnesota, 1918
The origin of Oktoberfest, 1810
British nurse executed in WWI, 1915
Conscientious objector wins Medal of Honor, 1945
USSR leads the space race, 1964
USS Cole attacked by terrorists, 2000
Terrorists kill 202 in Bali, 2002
Al Gore wins Nobel Prize in the wake of An Inconvenient Truth, 2007
Actress, playwright, novelist Alice Childress is born, 1912
John Denver dies in an aircraft accident, 1997
The Cowboy actor Tom Mix dies in an Arizona car accident, 1940
Thomas Jefferson composes romantic letter, 1786
Athletics score 10 in eighth inning of championship game, 1929
Dean Rusk criticizes Congress while fighting continues in South Vietnam, 1967
Nixon announces another round of troop withdrawals, 1970
Racial violence breaks out aboard U.S. Navy ships, 1972
British nurse Edith Cavell executed , 1915
Gen. Joseph Stilwell dies, 1946
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