Apr 09, 2006 23:12
fun stuff that happened on my birthday:
Wiki meme
Instructions: Go to wikipedia.org and look up your birth day (excluding the year).
List three deaths, two to three births, and three neat facts in your journal, including the year.
(yea, i'm not following the limits.... so basically this is just fun facts about my birthday)
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
This made me giggle~~~>1910 - Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt goes on his first airplane ride, in St Louis, with Arch Hoxsey as his pilot. Roosevelt almost falls out of the airplane while waving to the crowd below and Hoxsey pulls him back. This however made Roosevelt the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
1975 - Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the guest host.
MY ACTUAL BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!~~~>1987 - March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights attracts between 500,000 and 600,000 people to protest the Bowers v. Hardwick decision and the U.S. government's handling of the AIDS epidemic; first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
1999 - The Lord of the Rings movies begin principal photography
also, I am totally converting to Discordianism so that I can have a day of the week called "Prickle-Prickle" and so that I can celebrate "Discoflux"