April 8, 2006
3, 2, 1
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, two births and one death, including the year.
July 16
Events:
(boy, is there a list!)
1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1918 - Russian Revolution: At Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family.
622 - The Prophet Mohammed begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
Births:
1907 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
Death:
1557 - Anne of Cleves, queen of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
Seen several places, but last right here.
Posted by Ithildin at April 8, 2006 1:03 AM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE
Hey moon child, Im July 14th.
Posted by: Jane at April 9, 2006 8:28 AM
June 17
Events:
1994 - Following a televised highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. (Do I ever remember this, even though I was on a train from London to Edinburgh, having spent two weeks the summer between high school and college in the UK).
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill - The battle actually takes place on Breed's hill by mistake. British forces take Breed's Hill outside of Boston.
1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
Births:
1239 - King Edward I of England (d. 1307)
1898 - M.C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
Death:
1904 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Russian politician, Governor-General of Finland (assassinated) (b. 1839)
Posted by: Dave J at April 8, 2006 5:59 PM