Things that happened on my Birthday
Saw it in shortbutfast's journal - thanks, girl.
anybody else want to play?
1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List five events that happened on your birthday
4) List five important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)
My birthday is July 17.
180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
1936 - Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1962 - Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
1997 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
Birthdays
1925 - Jimmy Scott, American jazz singer
1935 - Diahann Carroll, American actress
1947 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
1954 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
1978 - Émilie Simon, French singer
Death
1959 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
... and a sad day it must have been.
Holidays
World Day for International Justice ... nice! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Day_for_International_Justice
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4th of july coming up. it'll be sad this year due to what happened on 2 accounts but we'll get through it as we've done all along. I should come here more often.