s/o from SB: What awful/weird/ironic/funny thing in history happened on your wedding date?

Cookie Pusher

Love the Colm Meaney's birthday part, not the wars and natural disasters part!

grumbledore

What an interesting idea!  Here's one:

2000 - In Florida, a statewide recount began to decide the winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential election. 

themuffinman16

July25th 1814- Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British

1938- Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany

1978- Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born

1990- Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres game

lyndausvi

severmilli12 said:

September 6th:

1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.

1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)

That is my wedding date also. 

1870  Louisa Ann Swain of Wyoming is the first woman to cast a legal vote after 1807

1968 - Switzerland becomes independent.

1995 - Cal Ripkin Jr 2131 consecutive came breaking a 56 year old record.

1997 Princess DI funeral

SammiNJonni

1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1969- photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history.

pinkcow13

2002 - In Washington, D.C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.

My biggest fear 2010:

An Air India Express Boeing 737 goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737.

FiancB

June 28

1894- Congress makes Labor Day a holiday

1914- Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, starting WWI which ended exactly 5 years later on the same day

1997- Mike Tyson's ear biting debacle