Birthdays are special occasions, when one celebrates their birth. Cakes are bought, candles are blown out and a new sense of responsibility descends upon your shoulders as you feel yourself grow another year older. However, while each year you celebrate, have you ever wondered what other events could have taken place on your birthday? What tragedies, festivals, and celebrations that could have taken place or take place each year on the date of your birth? Many people go for years not knowing how significant their day might truly be. Whether it be the birth of a celebrity, death of a King or rising of an empire, history may have happened on the day you were born.
In 1935, a terrible hurricane hit Florida killing 423 people. The hurricane brewed on Labor Day, before heading to the South Atlantic ocean before finally merging with a cyclone and thus disappearing on September 10. 1940, the Great Smoky Mountain National Park finally got the land it needed and on September 2, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt officially dedicated park. The park went through a 6 year battle in order to officially be recognized by the government. In 1964, notable actor Keanu Reeves, who has been acting for more than twenty years now, was born in Beirut, Lebanon. 1993, South Africa celebrates “Day of Peace.” The country would then receive their first black president the next year. 1978, George Harrison marries Olivia.
