Birthday Day Meme
Taken from lovelycudy
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). List three events, three births, three deaths, and three holidays.
(Oh, and tag three people.)
Events
1940 - World War II: The Battle of Britain ends - the United Kingdom prevents a German invasion.
1956 - Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
1999 - Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
Births
1946 - Norman Lovett, British actor
1966 - Mike O'Malley, American actor
1967 - Vanilla Ice, American rapper
Deaths
1641 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral and privateer (b. 1597)
1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
Holidays and Observances
Allantide (Cornwall, United Kingdom)
Halloween
Samhain in the northern hemisphere, Beltane in the southern hemisphere; begins on sunset of October 31 (Gaels, Welsh people and Neopagans)
Apparently my birthday is a big day for air disasters. :/
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). List three events, three births, three deaths, and three holidays.
(Oh, and tag three people.)
Events
1940 - World War II: The Battle of Britain ends - the United Kingdom prevents a German invasion.
1956 - Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
1999 - Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
Births
1946 - Norman Lovett, British actor
1966 - Mike O'Malley, American actor
1967 - Vanilla Ice, American rapper
Deaths
1641 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral and privateer (b. 1597)
1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
Holidays and Observances
Allantide (Cornwall, United Kingdom)
Halloween
Samhain in the northern hemisphere, Beltane in the southern hemisphere; begins on sunset of October 31 (Gaels, Welsh people and Neopagans)
Apparently my birthday is a big day for air disasters. :/