Birthday Meme
Courtesy of Carmel.
The Rules:
1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)
Here are my answers:
Three events that happened on my birthday are:
1) 1521 - The Diet of Worms begins
2) 1547 - Edward VI becomes first Protestant ruler of England
3) 1986 - The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger (Note: I watched this happen on live tv.)
Two important birthdays and one death:
1) 1582 - John Barclay, Scottish writer
2) 1912 - Jackson Pollock
Death:
1) 814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)
Holidays and observances
* Catholicism - Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas
* World Leprosy Day (woo hoo!!!!)
* Orthodox Church - Feast day of St. Ephraim the Syrian, St. Isaac the Syrian bishop of Nineveh, St. Theodosius, abbot of Totma, St. Paladius the hermit of Antioch, St. Ephraim, wonderworker of Novotorzhok, St. Ephraim, Bishop of Pereyaslavl (Kyiv Caves).
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Events:
3102 BC - Yuga-Lord Krishna is believed by the Hare Krishnas and Hindus to have left the planet
1861 — Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional president of the Confederate States of America
1885 — Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry finn” is published for the first time
Births
1516 — Queen Mary I of England
1954 — John Travolta
Death
999 Pope Gregory V
Holidays
Independence in Gambia (1965)
Diet of Worms? Sounds like a bad way to lose weight!
(sorry, I couldn’t resist)
November 8 Birthday
Events:
1864 - U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
1933 - Great Depression: New Deal - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
1971 - The fourth album of British rock group Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin IV) is released, including one of the group’s most well-known songs, “Stairway to Heaven”.
Two Important Birthdays:
1897 - Dorothy Day, Roman Catholic social activist (d. 1980)
1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American singer
Death:
# 1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 160
Holidays and Observances:
* Saint Michael’s Day in Greece and Cyprus and to those of Greek Orthodox faith worldwide
* Saint Demetrius Day (Mitrovdan) in Bosnia and Herzegovina
I’d be very jealous of the Diet of Worms thing if I hadn’t been born on Reformation Day.
Events–
1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party whose goal is the independence of Ireland.
Births–
1628 - John Bunyan, English cleric and author (d. 168
1772 - Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
Deaths–
1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
Oops! O forgot to mention that my date of birth is February 18. However, since I share the date with Mary I and John Travolta, you probably already figured that out.
January 17
Three events
1773 - Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.
1945 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in
1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
Two Birthdays
1463 - Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790)
One important death
1977 - Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on the death penalty in the United States.
Holiday or observance
Catholicism - Feast day of the following saints: St. Anthony and Amelbert