What happened on the day you were born?

Ever wondered what is significant about your birthday? Or what happened on the day, or year you were born? It used to be, parents saved newspapers from their kids birthdays, newspapers that yellowed, smelled musty and were all to easily lost forever in some obscure box in the attic.

Nowadays, all you have to do is head over to the Internet.

My favorite of all these when-you-were-born sites is this one, from a site called The People History. It’s organized by decade, by year and various subjects and even has video. Pick a year and there are all sorts of interesting facts… and old newsreel videos of the most momentous events that happened that year.

A site called Pro Genealogists has a nifty free feature that has you input your birthdate and it returns events that happened on that specific day and year, as well as famous people who died or share your birthday.

Finally, here’s the Kakorama site that tells you what song was number One on the day you were born as well as what was on Time Magazine’s cover, popular movies and cool inventions.