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Happy birthday to the only one who can beat Triangle Man in a fight. Did you know that your birthday is National Creamsicles Day?
On your birthday:
1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Sounds like an RPG plot.)
1791 - Ceremony at Bois Caiman, Haiti; Haitian Revolution begins.
1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration.
1901 - The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1908 - First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England.
1933 - Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km².
1935 - United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
1941 - David Crosby, American musician born
1945 - Steve Martin, American comedian born
1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time).
1959 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player born
1966 - Halle Berry, American actress born
1972 - An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1983 - Mila Kunis, Ukranian-born actress born
1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
2005 - Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board.
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