After this, I'm still bored...
Look your birthday up on Wikipedia, and post 3 events, 2 births, one death, and a holiday:
-Events- (too many cool ones to limit to 3)
1.) 1547 - Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
2.) 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
3.) 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway.
4.) 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
5.) 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
6.) 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
7.) 1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
8.) 1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.
-Births- (there aren't any famous people who share my birthday)
1.)1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
-Deaths- (there were too many cool people to just put one...plus, I didn't have enough births)
1.) 814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)
2.) 1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
3.) Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier (b. ca. 1540)
4.) 1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger:
-Holiday-
1.) Catholicism - Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas
-Events- (too many cool ones to limit to 3)
1.) 1547 - Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
2.) 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
3.) 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway.
4.) 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
5.) 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
6.) 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
7.) 1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
8.) 1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.
-Births- (there aren't any famous people who share my birthday)
1.)1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
-Deaths- (there were too many cool people to just put one...plus, I didn't have enough births)
1.) 814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)
2.) 1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
3.) Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier (b. ca. 1540)
4.) 1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger:
- Greg Jarvis (b. 1944)
- Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948)
- Ronald McNair (b. 1950)
- Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946)
- Judith Resnik (b. 1949)
- Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939)
- Michael J. Smith (b. 1945)
-Holiday-
1.) Catholicism - Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas