You say it's your birthday? It's my birthday too!

I browsed the list of things on Wikipedia that have occured on this the most wonderful day of the year, MY BIRTHDAY, and found a few tidbits to share. There are lots more but I figured you wouldn't read the ones I chose so why put more! :) Can you guess what year I was born?

1861 - American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run - At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins (Confederate victory).

1865 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.

1873 - At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West.

1944 - World War II: Battle of Guam - American troops land on Guam starting the battle (ends on August 10).

1963 - Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini is elected Pope Paul VI by the College of Cardinals.

1969 - Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon.

1972 - Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, (PIRA) around Belfast, Northern Ireland, 22 bomb explosions, 9 people were killed,130 seriously injured.

1984 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.

1994 - Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way to him becoming Prime Minister in 1997.

2003 - The last Volkswagen old-style Beetle rolls off the assembly line at Puebla, Mexico.

2005 - Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers escape.

Births-
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1924 - Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
1948 - Cat Stevens, English singer
1948 - Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
1957 - Jon Lovitz, American comedian

Now go out and enjoy the fabulosity that is July 21st!