With thanks to Wikipedia…
Oct 29th:
- 1268 AD – Conradin, last legitimate heir in a line of German kings and Holy Roman emperors, is beheaded.
- 1618 AD – Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded.
- 16615 – Portugal defeats the Kingdom of Kongo and beheads their King.
Moral for me: Don’t lose my head on my birthday.
- 1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk hits a WWII mine in the harbor at Sevastopol
- 1998 – John Glenn takes off in the Space Shuttle Discovery to become the oldest human in space
Moral for me: On my birthday, I should have a blast.
Other people with the same birthday:
Entertainer Fanny Brice, Nazi Joseph Goebbels, cartoonist Bill Mauldin, Robert Evans (my grandfather, and no, he was not that Bob Evans), actors Richard Dreyfuss, Kate Jackson, and Finola Hughes, musician Randy Jackson (youngest brother of Michael), actreseses Joely Fisher, Winona Ryder, and Gabrielle Union.
You say it’s your birthday? It’s my birthday too.
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