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Okay, because Lyanne told me to, I went to Wikipedia, looked up my birthday (minus year) and I now present the following three facts, two births and a death!
Facts:
1861 - American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident. (Considered by some to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War.")
1905 - According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
1964 - Several Panamanian youths try to put up the Panamanian flag on the US-controlled Panama Canal Zone, during the fight the Panama flag is torn, setting off four days of fighting between US armed forces and civilian panamanians around the country. This day is known as Martyrs' Day.
For those keeping score at home, that's three rebellions/revolutions started on my birthday (actually four - Brazil began it's revolution for independence from Portugal on this day, too). COINCIDENCE!?!
Births:
1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
1944 - Jimmy Page, English guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
Death:
1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1867)
Facts:
1861 - American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident. (Considered by some to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War.")
1905 - According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
1964 - Several Panamanian youths try to put up the Panamanian flag on the US-controlled Panama Canal Zone, during the fight the Panama flag is torn, setting off four days of fighting between US armed forces and civilian panamanians around the country. This day is known as Martyrs' Day.
For those keeping score at home, that's three rebellions/revolutions started on my birthday (actually four - Brazil began it's revolution for independence from Portugal on this day, too). COINCIDENCE!?!
Births:
1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
1944 - Jimmy Page, English guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
Death:
1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1867)