Meme-osity
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llcoolvadThe Birthday Meme
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
August 21
I like looking at things in a more orderly fashion, so...
Three Events [Politics]
1772 - King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing him as an enlightened despot
1831 - Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia
1959 - President Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union
Three Events [Arts]
1911 - The Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee
1987 - Hard rock band Guns N' Roses release their classic debut Appetite for Destruction
1997 - The British Rock Group Oasis release album, Be Here Now
Three Events [Science]
1888 - The first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward Burroughs
1986 - Toxic gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people
1993 - NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft
Two Births (or several)
1952 - Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)
1956 - Kim Cattrall, English-born actress
(and Count Basie, Carrie-Anne Moss, Friz Freleng, Aubrey Beardsley, Princess Margaret!, Wilt Chamberlain, Jeff Stryker!, Kenny Rogers, and Clarence Williams III)
One Death (or two)
1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560) (had to add that one!)
I think this all makes my birthdate historically a mixed bag. Yay, Joe Strummer! Boo, toxic gas!
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
August 21
I like looking at things in a more orderly fashion, so...
Three Events [Politics]
1772 - King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing him as an enlightened despot
1831 - Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia
1959 - President Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union
Three Events [Arts]
1911 - The Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee
1987 - Hard rock band Guns N' Roses release their classic debut Appetite for Destruction
1997 - The British Rock Group Oasis release album, Be Here Now
Three Events [Science]
1888 - The first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward Burroughs
1986 - Toxic gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people
1993 - NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft
Two Births (or several)
1952 - Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)
1956 - Kim Cattrall, English-born actress
(and Count Basie, Carrie-Anne Moss, Friz Freleng, Aubrey Beardsley, Princess Margaret!, Wilt Chamberlain, Jeff Stryker!, Kenny Rogers, and Clarence Williams III)
One Death (or two)
1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560) (had to add that one!)
I think this all makes my birthdate historically a mixed bag. Yay, Joe Strummer! Boo, toxic gas!
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