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azdesertroseThe idea is, go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (month and day, not year), and see what interesting things have happened on your birthday throughout history.
EVENTS:
1592 - Titus Andronicus first staged at the Rose Theatre. Yay for Shakespeare!
1773 - The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina. And yay for Charleston!
1866 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1915 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote. BOO! BOO! Sexist bastards.
1932 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate. Yay!
1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt and later proclaim a republic.
1966 - Batman the TV series debuts on ABC.Da na na na na na na na na
1969 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release their eponymous first album. Must get the Led out
1986 - Space shuttle Columbia takes-off with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.This is the first thing on the list that I actually remember.
1991 - Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.I wrote a poem about this, when it happened. I was all of 15.
1998 - Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2006 - Turkey released Mehmet Ali Ağca from prision after serving 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II. Guess it doesn't matter any more, since His Holiness is dead now anyway?
2006 - 362 people are crushed near Mecca in Saudi Arabia during a Muslim ritual. Ow.
BIRTHS:
1562 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
1628 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703) He wrote "Little Red Riding Hood", amongst other stories. I'm sure that the story existed before he wrote it down, but he was the first to record it.
1723 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (d. 1797)
1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)
1737 - John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)My mother said she used to be able to forge his signature as represented on the Declaration of Independence. This is what happens when history nerds get bored. *grin*
1876 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)Exactly 100 years before me
1899 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
1910 - Luise Rainer, German actress
1916 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa
1949 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
1951 - Kirstie Alley, American actress
1960 - Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
1960 - Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
1966 - Rob Zombie, American musician, artist, and writer
DEATHS:
1321 - Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
1665 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)On my actual birthday. Wow.
1997 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
2001 - William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
2002 - Cyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State (b.1917)
2003 - Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES:
Tanzania - Zanzibar Revolution Day
FICTION:
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the fictional computer HAL becomes operational on January 12. In the movie by Stanley Kubrick, HAL was "born" in 1992, while in the book by Arthur C. Clarke the same event occurs in 1997.
Yeah, I copied a lot of stuff, but I copied what was interesting to me. So there.
EVENTS:
1592 - Titus Andronicus first staged at the Rose Theatre. Yay for Shakespeare!
1773 - The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina. And yay for Charleston!
1866 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1915 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote. BOO! BOO! Sexist bastards.
1932 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate. Yay!
1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt and later proclaim a republic.
1966 - Batman the TV series debuts on ABC.Da na na na na na na na na
1969 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release their eponymous first album. Must get the Led out
1986 - Space shuttle Columbia takes-off with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.This is the first thing on the list that I actually remember.
1991 - Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.I wrote a poem about this, when it happened. I was all of 15.
1998 - Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2006 - Turkey released Mehmet Ali Ağca from prision after serving 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II. Guess it doesn't matter any more, since His Holiness is dead now anyway?
2006 - 362 people are crushed near Mecca in Saudi Arabia during a Muslim ritual. Ow.
BIRTHS:
1562 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
1628 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703) He wrote "Little Red Riding Hood", amongst other stories. I'm sure that the story existed before he wrote it down, but he was the first to record it.
1723 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (d. 1797)
1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)
1737 - John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)My mother said she used to be able to forge his signature as represented on the Declaration of Independence. This is what happens when history nerds get bored. *grin*
1876 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)Exactly 100 years before me
1899 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
1910 - Luise Rainer, German actress
1916 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa
1949 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
1951 - Kirstie Alley, American actress
1960 - Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
1960 - Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
1966 - Rob Zombie, American musician, artist, and writer
DEATHS:
1321 - Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
1665 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)On my actual birthday. Wow.
1997 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
2001 - William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
2002 - Cyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State (b.1917)
2003 - Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES:
Tanzania - Zanzibar Revolution Day
FICTION:
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the fictional computer HAL becomes operational on January 12. In the movie by Stanley Kubrick, HAL was "born" in 1992, while in the book by Arthur C. Clarke the same event occurs in 1997.
Yeah, I copied a lot of stuff, but I copied what was interesting to me. So there.
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April 19th has always been a little sad . . .
Date: 2006-04-13 03:31 pm (UTC)1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord – British General Thomas Gage attempts to confiscate American colonists' firearms. Captain John Parker orders his band of minutemen to not fire unless fired upon. Random shots rang out among the British soldiers. The minutemen promptly fired back. This was the "shot heard round the world." The British are driven back to Boston, Massachusetts, thus beginning the American Revolutionary War.
1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.
1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1943 - World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1971 - Charles Manson is sentenced to life in prison for the Sharon Tate murders.
1993 - The 50-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
Births:
1930 - Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
1946 - Tim Curry, British actor
1962 - Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver (he's from New Mexico too!)
1968 - Ashley Judd, American actress
1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor (*drool*)
Deaths:
1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1993 - David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959) (for some reason, that made me giggle a little. Like being an American cult leader is something to be proud of)
2004 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
Holidays and observances:
Bicycle Day (*giggle*)
Re: April 19th has always been a little sad . . .
Date: 2006-04-13 06:43 pm (UTC)Re: April 19th has always been a little sad . . .
Date: 2006-04-15 02:49 am (UTC)Yours Turly,
Swimmer2006, A.K.A. Mini-Me
Re: April 19th has always been a little sad . . .
Date: 2006-04-15 02:50 am (UTC)Until next time,
Swimmer2006, AKA Mini-Me