Happy Birthday to Me - GAW *WINNER ANNOUNCED*

Gotta try,

Not sure what happened on my birthday, But I know I share a bday with Josef Stalin
December 21st!

wait, google to the rescue!!

1598 - Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile; all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the 1870s "Pacification of Araucania".

And thanks for the chance!
 
Happy b'day! Thanks for the chance.
I still remember this one (mostly). I did look it up to confirm.

July 17 1975 - Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space.
 
Happy B-day bro!... it's all downhill after this dude!
 
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Happy Birthday, Erik.

August 1, 1774 -- Joseph Priestly, an English theologian and chemist discovers oxygen ("Oh...there it is").
 
Happy birthday!!!
I´m in!
February 11st 1990 South Africa: Nelson Mandela is free after 27 years in prison.
Thank you!
 
Those copper bolsters are gorgeous but costly! I distantly remember 40, I think. :eek:

I'm in! Happy Birthday and thanks for this giveaway,

The Reds and Cincinnati, Crosley Field, Riverfront Stadium, the Great American Ballpark and baseball are part of my history, hence...

On October 6, 1882 - 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
 
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I have no idea whether I'll make it to 40 posts in time but if I do I'm in.

The real reason I am posting is that my birthday falls on one of the most important dates in American History (at least in my opinion), D-Day! Really I just wanted to post that because it has always been special to me, the GAW is just a bonus.
 
I'm in, and happy birthday!

April 16th, 1972 : NASA launched the Apollo 16 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida
 
Happy early birthday! Great looking knife, very generous!

September 30th- Actor James Dean dies in an automobile accident while speeding in his Porche 550 Spyder.

Thanks for the chance!
 
Happy Birthday Erik! Thanks for the opportunity.

December 30, 1953 - The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for USD at $1,175 each from RCA. (we did not get one in our house until 1965)

Peter
 
Jan 2, 1872 - Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.

Happy Birthday, Eric and thanks for a chance at an unusually fine gift. I'm in.
 
Not an entry thank you for such a generous GAW. I will participate in the event portion though.

March 1 1974: The indictments for the Watergate scandal were handed down.
 
Congratulations on the upcoming 40, my birthday falls on a great day, June 14th...

Following the suggestion of Colonel J Granville Leach (at the time historian of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution), the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America on April 25, 1893 adopted a resolution requesting the mayor of Philadelphia and all others in authority and all private citizens to display the Flag on June 14th. Leach went on to recommend that thereafter the day be known as 'Flag Day', and on that day, school children be assembled for appropriate exercises, with each child being given a small Flag.

So on my birthday for the last nearly 40 years I get up in the morning and hop on my motorcycle or when the weather was bad, the cage and do a tour of the neighborhood to see all the flags out out for my birthday. :)

Back in 2006 I was back in Hungary visiting family with my mom and my daughter during my birthday, I woke up to a snifter of cognac, an espresso and my cousin had the Hungarian and an American flag hung in my home for my birthday, the last time I had been back home in the 70s if they knew he had that flag he could have been hung as a traitor.

Btw I'm definitely in, thanks for the generous giveaway and good luck to everyone.
 
September 15: 1830 - 1st person to be run over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England). Thought this rather a comical tidbit from history.

I'm definitely in on this one. Seldom do these.
 
I'm in.

My birthday is March 20, and in 1760 something like 350 buildings burnt in the great fire of Boston. Cheery fact there.
 
Not an entry as I don't meet the criteria, but awesome GAW! Happy 40th man! Life starts to get pretty good about that age :D
 
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