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Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birth date but not the year. List three neat events, three births and two deaths, include the year.
February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 310 days remaining, 311 in leap years. By Roman custom February 24 is the day added to a leap year, and the occurrence of February 29 is merely a consequence of this.
EVENTS
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1804 - London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1975 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release the classic double album Physical Graffiti.
BIRTHS
1597 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
1874 - Honus Wagner, baseball player (d. 1955)
1955 - Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer
DEATHS
616 - King Ethelbert of Kent (I'm actually related through marriage to this line)
1990 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1917)
And now a head scratcher, from off the top of darshan's head (i just woke up). . .
If you could click on a link on Wikipedia and see the date of your death, would you do it? Why or why not? Discuss.
Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birth date but not the year. List three neat events, three births and two deaths, include the year.
February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 310 days remaining, 311 in leap years. By Roman custom February 24 is the day added to a leap year, and the occurrence of February 29 is merely a consequence of this.
EVENTS
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1804 - London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1975 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release the classic double album Physical Graffiti.
BIRTHS
1597 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
1874 - Honus Wagner, baseball player (d. 1955)
1955 - Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer
DEATHS
616 - King Ethelbert of Kent (I'm actually related through marriage to this line)
1990 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1917)
And now a head scratcher, from off the top of darshan's head (i just woke up). . .
If you could click on a link on Wikipedia and see the date of your death, would you do it? Why or why not? Discuss.