Wikipedia Meme

[froglet]

I really will start doing proper updates again some day, I promise :) Only one month until the wedding now - I'm getting really excited :) I'm busy sorting out the house and getting my stuff together.

Go to Wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat/important events, three births, and three deaths!

Events

• 197 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.


• 1600 - The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina exploded in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.


• 1986 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.

Births

• 1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)


• 1859 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)


• 1960 - Andrew, Duke of York -only other one I'd heard of

Deaths

• 197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain - see Events :-)


• 1997 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (b. 1904)


• Not heard of the others