Thursday, August 21, 2008

You Say It's Your Birthday? Well, It's My Birthday Too, Yeah!

A birthday meme, picked up from Chris Roberson:

Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.

EVENTS
1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island.
1919 - Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the Constitution (granting suffrage to women) and sends it to the states for ratification.
1989 - Tiananmen Square protests end badly in Bejing

BIRTHS
1738 - King George III of Great Britain
1928 - Dr. Ruth Westheimer
1951 - Wendy Pini

DEATHS
1798 - Giacomo Casanova
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich (assassinated)

HOLIDAY
Tonga - National Day

Update: The meme can be misleading, so let me add that my actual birthday is June 4th. I don't think one is meant to wait until one's actual birthday to do the meme, but I've been wrong before.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My brother's birthday yesterday, too, although he's a lot older than you are!

astrologymemphis.blogspot.com said...

Happy Belated Birthday and many merry returns.

Thanks for the Wiki link. That was fun. (I got here through Colleen Lindsay's blog, btw)

My birthday is February 8:


EVENTS

1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.

1692 - A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials.

1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.

1969 - Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.


BIRTHS

1828 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)

1850 - Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904)

1931 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)


DEATHS

1990 - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)

2007 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model, actress, and entertainer (b. 1967)

HOLIDAYS

Nirvana Day - an annual Buddhist festival.

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