The crappiest stuff happens on my birthday
Posted April 25, 2008
I was looking on wikipeia for my birthday August 24th- look for yourselves: 1967 - Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up. 1968 - France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power. 1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon. 1989 - Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government. 1989 - Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti. 1989 - Voyager 2 passes Neptune. 1990 - A judge rules that Judas Priest are not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's music. 2001 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores. 2004 - 89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya. How sad is my birthday?
