I Hear that Train A-Coming....
I wasn't actually going to do this, and then I looked just for the heck of it...and there seems to be something of a theme going on.
I mean, I've always claimed September 15 was a cosmic date (I keep meeting people born on that day), but really, this is kind of...well, I would say funny, but it's really not.
Stolen from jlrpuck and earlgreytea86 - the Wiki Meme. Go to Wikipedia and enter your date of birth. Then pick 4 events, 3 births, two deaths, and one holiday.
The lesson here is: don't take a train on my birthday.
Events
1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens (see also deaths, below).
1831 - The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1958 - A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
1981 - The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC.
Births
1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)1
1890 - Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)2
1916 - Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)3
Deaths
1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
Holiday
In India Engineer's Day celebrated on birthday of Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya.4
1 Vaguely recall some story about this guy having his own train car....or maybe it was a bathtub.
2 Midnight on the Orient Express - duh!
3 Stars in The Lady Vanishes, which takes place on a train
4 Who, sadly, has nothing to do with trains. But he was an engineer, so that's got to count for something.
I mean, I've always claimed September 15 was a cosmic date (I keep meeting people born on that day), but really, this is kind of...well, I would say funny, but it's really not.
Stolen from jlrpuck and earlgreytea86 - the Wiki Meme. Go to Wikipedia and enter your date of birth. Then pick 4 events, 3 births, two deaths, and one holiday.
The lesson here is: don't take a train on my birthday.
Events
1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens (see also deaths, below).
1831 - The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1958 - A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
1981 - The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC.
Births
1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)1
1890 - Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)2
1916 - Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)3
Deaths
1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
Holiday
In India Engineer's Day celebrated on birthday of Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya.4
1 Vaguely recall some story about this guy having his own train car....or maybe it was a bathtub.
2 Midnight on the Orient Express - duh!
3 Stars in The Lady Vanishes, which takes place on a train
4 Who, sadly, has nothing to do with trains. But he was an engineer, so that's got to count for something.