This meme yields lots of interesting stuff
1. Search Wikipedia for your birthday.
2. List 4 entries from the "Events" section, 3 from the "Births" section, 2 from the "Deaths" section, and one from the "Holidays and Observances" section.
4 Events
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan - set sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
1848 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science was created.
1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. (I do remember this!)
3 Births
1842 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923) (not to be confused with the Dewar of Scotch Whisky fame)
1885 - Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941)
1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
2 Deaths
1863 - Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785) (the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.)
1973 - Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1 Holiday/Oberservance
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
2. List 4 entries from the "Events" section, 3 from the "Births" section, 2 from the "Deaths" section, and one from the "Holidays and Observances" section.
4 Events
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan - set sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
1848 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science was created.
1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. (I do remember this!)
3 Births
1842 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923) (not to be confused with the Dewar of Scotch Whisky fame)
1885 - Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941)
1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
2 Deaths
1863 - Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785) (the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.)
1973 - Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1 Holiday/Oberservance
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
- The Korean Martyrs, including Andrew Kim Taegon and Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert
- Eustace
- Thomas Johnson, John Davy, and companions (martyrs).