History meme
Snagged from takhallus
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths, 3 holidays
January 7th
Events
1610 - Galileo Galilei observes three of the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them, and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons. Ganymede not discovered by him until January 13.
1927 - The first transatlantic telephone call is made - from New York City to London.
1952 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb..
Births
1858 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
1912 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988) (ADDAMS FAMILY!!!)
1943 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955) - this always makes me cry.
Oh, and Nicholas Cage, too.
Deaths
1536 - Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
1996 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
Holidays
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths, 3 holidays
January 7th
Events
1610 - Galileo Galilei observes three of the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them, and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons. Ganymede not discovered by him until January 13.
1927 - The first transatlantic telephone call is made - from New York City to London.
1952 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb..
Births
1858 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
1912 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988) (ADDAMS FAMILY!!!)
1943 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955) - this always makes me cry.
Oh, and Nicholas Cage, too.
Deaths
1536 - Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
1996 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
Holidays
- Italy - Tricolour day (Festa del Tricolore)
- Japan - Nanakusa (Seven Herbs Festival).
- Christmas Day in the Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian Calendar (I have friends who celebrate this!)