December 26th, aka the day...

• after Christmas
• that is the 360th day of a normal year

My Birthday through History:

• the Pilgrim Fathers land at Plymouth (1620)
• Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz get married (1793)
• the 4th Treaty of Pressburg is signed (1805)
• the Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded at Miami University (1848)
• the 1st ever inter-club football match takes place in Sheffield, England (1860)
• the 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed (1870)
• Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis (1871)
• Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium (1898)
• Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees (1919)
• Turkey adopt the Gregorian Calendar (1925)
• Phi Iota Alpha, the Oldest Latino Fraternity in Existence, is founded (1931)
• FM radio is patented (1933)
• FDR signs a bill establishing the 4th Thursday in November as US Thanksgiving Day(1941)
• The 1st Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga (1966)
• Time Magazine's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer (1982)
• The 1st long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air (1986)
• The USSR is formally dissolved (1991)

There are more depressing events as well, but I've chosen to ignore them out of a sense of b-day pride.

I'm proud that my Birthday is shared with:

• 1194 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1542 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1st Tokugawa Shogun
• 1716 – Thomas Gray, English writer
• 1716 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet
• 1723 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, writer
• 1771 – Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples
• 1780 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician
• 1791 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician & inventor
• 1819 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist
• 1822 – Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright
• 1853 – René Bazin, French novelist
• 1872 – Norman Angell, British politician, Nobel laureate
• 1883 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist
• 1890 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler
• 1891 – Henry Miller, American writer
• 1894 – Jean Toomer, American writer
• 1902 – Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter
• 1903 – Elisha Cook Jr., American actor
• 1904 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer
• 1905 – William Loeb, American newspaper publisher
• 1906 – Imperio Argentina, Argentine actress and singer
• 1914 – Annemarie Wendl, German actress
• 1914 – Richard Widmark, American actor
• 1921 – Steve Allen, American comedian
• 1922 – Richard Mayes, English actor
• 1926 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter
• 1927 – Alan King, American comedian
• 1927 – Denis Quilley, British actor
• 1929 – Régine, French singer and nightclub owner
• 1930 – Donald Moffat, English-born actor
• 1930 – Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter
• 1933 – Ugly Dave Gray, Australian television personality
• 1933 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer
• 1935 – Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer
• 1935 – Norm Ullman, Canadian hockey player
• 1937 – John Horton Conway, British mathematician
• 1937 – Jay Heimowitz, American poker player
• 1938 – Bahram Beizai, Iranian playwright & film director
• 1938 – Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director
• 1939 – Fred Schepisi, Australian film director
• 1939 – Phil Spector, American music producer
• 1940 – Edward C. Prescott, Nobel laureate
• 1941 – Daniel Schmid, Swiss film director
• 1944 – Jane Lapotaire, British actress
• 1945 – John Walsh, American talk show host
• 1948 – Candy Crowley, American journalist
• 1949 – José Ramos-Horta, Nobel laureate
• 1951 – Richard Skinner, British radio presenter
• 1951 – John Scofield, American jazz guitarist
• 1953 – Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk)
• 1954 – Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer
• 1954 – Steve Steen, English actor
• 1954 – Tony Rosato, Italian-Canadian actor
• 1956 – David Sedaris, American essayist
• 1957 – Dermot Murnaghan, British broadcaster
• 1959 – Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director
• 1960 – Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor
• 1960 – Jim Toomey, American syndicated cartoonist
• 1961 – Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer
• 1961 – John Lynch, Irish actor
• 1963 – Lars Ulrich, Danish-born drummer (Metallica)
• 1964 – Elizabeth Kostova, American author
• 1970 – James Mercer, American musician (The Shins)
• 1970 – Krissada Terrence, Thai singer and actor
• 1971 – Jared Leto, American actor and singer
• 1971 – Jonathan M. Parisen, American film director
• 1972 – Robert Muchamore, English children's author
• 1973 – Reichen Lehmkuhl, American television personality
• 1974 – Josie Ho, Hong Kong singer and actor
• 1974 – Joshua John Miller, American actor
• 1974 – Tiffany Brissette, American TV actress
• 1976 – Lea De Mae, Czech actress
• 1976 – Nadia Litz, Canadian actress
• 1979 – Chris Daughtry, American singer
• 1979 – Mzbel, Ghanaian singer
• 1982 – Oguri Shun, Japanese actor/model
• 1985 – Yuu Shirota, Japanese Idol
• 1987 – Adam Walker, British flautist
• 1989 – Jennica Garcia, Filipina actress
• 1995 – Zach Mills, American actor
• 2000 – Samuel Sevian, American chess player

Extra holidays on my b-day:

• Boxing Day
• Christian Feast Day
  • Abadiu of Antinoe (Coptic Church)
  • James the Just (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Stephen (Western Church)
• Day of Good Will (South Africa)
• Independence and Unity Day (Slovenia)
• Mauro Hamza Day (Houston, Texas)
• Mummer's Day (Padstow, Cornwall)
• Proclamation Day (South Australia)
• Synaxis of the Theotokos (Eastern Orthodox Church)
• St. Stephen's Day (a public holiday in Alsace, Austria, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland and Slovakia)
• Thanksgiving (Solomon Islands)
• The first day of Kwanzaa
• The first day of the Junkanoo street parade
• The second of the twelve days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
• Wren Day (Ireland and the Isle of Man)