Birthday meme
So I'll join the crowd...
Taken from most everyone on my friends list.
Wikipedia your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday:
Events
330 - Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1942 - William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1997 - IBM Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
Births
1875 - Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912)
1888 - Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
1918 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
Deaths
2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
2008 - John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b.1953)
Holiday
Saint Gangulphus[2] of Burgundy (d. May 11, 760 AD) is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church.
Taken from most everyone on my friends list.
Wikipedia your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday:
Events
330 - Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1942 - William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1997 - IBM Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
Births
1875 - Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912)
1888 - Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
1918 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
Deaths
2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
2008 - John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b.1953)
Holiday
Saint Gangulphus[2] of Burgundy (d. May 11, 760 AD) is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church.