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Does your birthday fall on a day a national disaster occurred?

For example, my birthday is on April 16th, the day the Virginia Tech shootings happened. How many of you out there were born on September 11th? Do you celebrate your birthday not thinking about it? Did you celebrate the day it actually happened?

by bardicwanderer
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no but we did find out officially that we were going to be parents for the second time on 9-11-01

natedogg828
5 months ago

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Yes, Election Day 2008

kp1111
5 months ago

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I was born on September 11th. Oddly enough, that fact saved my life. I don't travel on my birthday and flew out of Newark on Flight 93 two days before 9/11.

I woke up and turned on the news and watched the whole thing unfold live (I live in California). No, no celebrating that day or in the first few years after.

fenriq
5 months ago

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June 14 - the birthday of the Army and (I assume for the same reason) Flag Day. I have received a lot of flags for birthday presents...

benyust2
5 months ago

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Yeah, my birth (just kidding).

omnichad
5 months ago

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on my B-day Jan 17th- 6.6 Earthquake hit Los Angeles in 1994 and in 1991 US started a war in Iraq.

dw1771
5 months ago

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September 11th... I turned 20 the day of the tragedy. Strangely enough my birthday is never forgotten and I need never remind my friends.

thelarch
5 months ago

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Elvis Presley passed on my mom birthday 8/16/1977 A day i will never forget :(

drivebypaint
5 months ago

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February 1st
2003 the Space Shuttle Columbia burns up during reentry.
2004 251 people are trampled to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, oh, and Janet Jackson's nipple was briefly exposed on national TV

ganzhimself
5 months ago

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_July_2006_Mumbai_train_bombings

About 210 people were killed on my birthday (July 11th)

captainsuperdawg
5 months ago

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@dw1771: I proposed to my wife on the day of the Northridge quake. The significance is that we lived in Canoga Park, a mere miles from the epicenter.

As for my birthday and disasters, I share a birthday with those noted enemies of humanity Osama bin Laden and Sharon Stone. Does that count?

elforman
5 months ago

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Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf - not really a disaster, but we know the rest of the story
Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne went for a drive in Chappaquiddick
McD's massacre, 21 killed, 19 injured
Battle of the Allia – a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome

xdavex
4 months ago

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@drivebypaint: My sister is 8/16 as well. I always give her a phone call with my best Elvis impersonation.

xdavex
4 months ago

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My wife was born on December 7th. She commemorates every year by going out and getting bombed.

elforman
4 months ago

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I share a birthday with Downtown Julie Brown....does that count?

jsimsace
4 months ago

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April 8th... Seems a good number of naval disasters occured on April 8th. (See here for a list of events on April 8.)

I share Julian Lennon's birthdate as well.

baqui63
4 months ago

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