Aug 20, 2008 19:31
Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday
July 15
1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1870 - Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician (d. 1980)
1961 - Forest Whitaker, American actor
1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
Japan - Third day of Obon feast period.