Birthday Meme
Stolen from 2pumps. Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Events:
1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
1941 - Holocaust (Shoah): Extermination of Jewish people at the death camp of Chelmno begins.
1975 - Indonesia invades East Timor.
1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
Births:
1928 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer
1949 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
1972 - Hermann Maier, Austrian skier (Born on the same day as me, he's almost as accomplished as myself.)
Deaths:
43 BC - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)
1815 - Michel Ney, French marshall (executed) (b. 1769)
Holiday:
India - The Armed Forces Flag Day
Events:
1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
1941 - Holocaust (Shoah): Extermination of Jewish people at the death camp of Chelmno begins.
1975 - Indonesia invades East Timor.
1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
Births:
1928 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer
1949 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
1972 - Hermann Maier, Austrian skier (Born on the same day as me, he's almost as accomplished as myself.)
Deaths:
43 BC - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)
1815 - Michel Ney, French marshall (executed) (b. 1769)
Holiday:
India - The Armed Forces Flag Day