Three and counting...
Funky Wikipedia meme, even though after a whole... how many has it been?... TWO?... memes, we're all meme-d out. Snaffled it from Lunatic Ramblings...
Go to Wikipedia and enter your birth day and month in the search field. Of all the info contained therein, list
- Three events that happened on your birthday
- Two important birthdays and one interesting death
- One holiday or observance
Events
- 1415 - The army of Henry V defeats the French 'surrender monkeys' at the Battle of Agincourt.
- 1917 - The Bolshevik Revolution commences (well, according to the Julian calender that the Russians were using at the time. The Gregorian puts the date at Nov 5. Dodgy Gregorians, trying to steal my thunder...)
- 1936 - Hitler and Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis (of evil... mwahahaha)
Birthdays
- 1942 - Helen Reddy (Cue the karaoke favourite... all together now "I am strong, I am invincible... I am woman. etc etc"
- 1959 - Nancy Cartwright (just for Chesty...)
Death
- 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer ( I'm sure WJ can help you with the original stuff)
Observance
- Feast of St Crispin (yay! Always been a fan of the Crispin. Well, since developing a slight crush on Crispin Glover in Charlie's Angels)
posted by actonb at 6:37 pm
1 Comments:
Ok, I'm playing this one here, because I can't be arsed doing my own post, and I wasn't tagged, as such:
3 Events:
3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the Maya calendar starts
1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1961 - The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
2 Births
Easy ... I already know these.
1899 - Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
1 Death
1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798) Mmm ... Romanticism.
(Also HG wells)
1 Holiday etc.
RC saint day of Cassianus of Imola (patron of shorthand-writers) ... heh.
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