Meme

[waterspyder]

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

March 16

Facts:
(I did 4, because frankly, the 4th one is eerie)

1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.

1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.

1942 - First V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff)

2001 - The only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves, according to a health survey.

Births:

1959 - Flavor Flav, American rapper

1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor (I love Wash)

Death:

37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)


For bonus points:

Trivia - The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome.

Comments

[furious-g.livejournal.com]

August 24

EVENTS:

79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.

1814 - British (Canadian) troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.

1853 - Potato chips are first prepared.

1949 - The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.


BIRTHS:

1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1951 - Orson Scott Card, American writer


DEATHS:

1572 - Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre


Bonus:

Feast day of Saint Bartholomew

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I suppose the last two would be related.

[(Anonymous)]

September 19th
Facts:
-1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
-1985 - A strong earthquake hits Mexico City and other parts of Mexico, killing thousands and demolishing about 400 buildings.
-1796 - George Washington makes his farewell address.

Births:
1551 - King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
1928 - Adam West, American actor

Deaths:
1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)

Bonus:
# Hermione Granger's birthday, from J.K. Rowling's series Harry Potter.


Proving yet again I'm the best thing to ever happen to Sept 19th :)

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

March 8

Neat facts
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but later on May 15 confirms the discovery).
1884 - Susan B. Anthony testifies before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.
1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.

Births
1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1935)

Deaths
1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)