Memes in the heat

Aug 15, 2008 19:04

Wikipedia
your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday

May 26th

Events

1538 - Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.

1647 - Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.

1896 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

1938 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

Births

1907 - John Wayne, American actor

1948 - Stevie Nicks, American songwriter

1955 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef

Deaths

1939 - Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)

1943 - Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)

Holiday

Poland - Mother's Day
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