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.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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

Fri Aug 22, 07:50:00 PM 2008
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.

Fri Aug 22, 08:31:00 PM 2008

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