birthday meme (March 9)
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three interesting facts, two births, and one death in your journal, including the year.
Events
Ok, I cheated with the numbers... but only because I thought these were interesting.
Amazing! I never even knew about the defection of Stalin's daughter, or about the hostage incident in '77.
Events
- 1932 - The Egyptian University rector "Ahmed Lotfy El-Said" resigned to protest against the transfer of Dr. Taha Hussein without the University permission. On 2003, an academic group called "March 9" was established in Egypt to defend academic rights and university independence.
- 1945 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs. The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people.
- 1967 - Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
- 1977 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.
- 1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)
- 1943 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player
- 1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist (b. 1946)
- 1994 - Charles Bukowski, American writer (b.1920)
- 1997 - The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
- 2003 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (b. 1933)
Ok, I cheated with the numbers... but only because I thought these were interesting.
Amazing! I never even knew about the defection of Stalin's daughter, or about the hostage incident in '77.