Groundhog's Day
From pmoodie
Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (month/day) and then pick 3 events, 2 births (other than your own, silly) and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.
2 February
Three events
1933 - Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament.
1972 - The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest over Bloody Sunday.
1990 - Apartheid: In South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free.
Two births
1882 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941) (He published Ulysses on 2 February in 1922, or 2/2/22)
1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
One holiday (OK, I picked three. Sue me)
Paganism - Imbolc (in northern hemisphere), Lughnasadh (in southern hemisphere).
United States and Canada - Groundhog Day.
Roman Catholicism - Candlemas
Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (month/day) and then pick 3 events, 2 births (other than your own, silly) and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.
2 February
Three events
1933 - Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament.
1972 - The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest over Bloody Sunday.
1990 - Apartheid: In South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free.
Two births
1882 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941) (He published Ulysses on 2 February in 1922, or 2/2/22)
1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
One holiday (OK, I picked three. Sue me)
Paganism - Imbolc (in northern hemisphere), Lughnasadh (in southern hemisphere).
United States and Canada - Groundhog Day.
Roman Catholicism - Candlemas