Other interesting events in the history of my birthday:
# 1892 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played. # 1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded. # 1969 - The first pulsar is discovered, in the Crab Nebula.
# 1619 - 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
1945 - By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN was established on October 24, 1945).
# 1954 - The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA
My favorite is # 1969 - Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1990 - Gulf War: Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.