Are you not curious to discover some fun facts about your birthday? Find out ‘what happened on my birthday’ and what was the number one song on your day of birth. Know the meaning of your special day and who shares your birthday! (Sponsored link)
Historical Event(s)
– World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
– World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
– The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
– Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
– World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
– World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union’s second-largest city, Leningrad.
– World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
– World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the GS U-81 sustained on November 13.
– Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
Who Were Born On ?
– Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
– Paddy Ashdown, British politician
– Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate
– Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian singer
– Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
– Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
– Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
– Yuri Norstein, Russian animator
– Robert Wilson, American theatre director
– Nolan Richardson, American basketball coach