Birthday Meme

Aug 08, 2008 15:42

So it's not my birthday today. Sure feels like it though all this cool stuff is getting done.

Instructions:
Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.

April 12 is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events:

1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

1961 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1)

1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.

Births:

1940 - Herbie Hancock, American musician and composer

1944 - John Kay, German-born musician

1973-- Me! Paul born! All celebrate!

Holiday:

The Roman holiday of Cerealia begins.
Yuri's Night, an international celebration of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin; in Russia (and formerly in USSR), the Cosmonautics Day.

Looks like I was born! Born to be wild! Heavy metal thunder!

birthday, rockets, metal

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