An interesting meme via Doctorvee:
Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/). Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Birth date: May 20
Events:
- 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
- 1896 – The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
- 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States.
Births:
- 1806 – John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873)
- 1970 – Louis Theroux, British television presenter
Death:
- 1996 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)
Well, I can live with Augustus Ceaser and Kaublai Khan. I had no idea that my birthday was International Bisexuality Day. I have learned.
Interesting. The chandelier disaster at the Paris Opera House was presumably an inspiration for The Phantom of the Opera.
Events
1867 – The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
1933 – The end of prohibition in the USA. Mine’s a pint.
1958 – Saint Clare of Assisi is made the Patron Saint of Television by the Pope, on the basis that when she was too ill to attend mass she miraculously saw it on the wall of her room (the flash cow must’ve had a plasma screen, probably with 5.1 surround, though why she’d want to watch Songs of Praise on it instead of, say, Revenge of the Sith is quite beyond me).
Births
Rene Russo (slaver), 1954
Paris Hilton (shudder), 1981
Death
Thelonius Monk, 1982
Matt
Oops, that’s all “things that happened on February 17th”. Yasser Arafat was meant to share my birthday, but according to Wikipedia he was born in August 1929.
Date: 8th July
Events
1680 – The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1990 – At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by US reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90.
Births
1838 – Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
1958 – Kevin Bacon, American actor
Death
1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)