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Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the years.
Mine!
Wah! So many to sieve through :P
3 neat facts
1965 - Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation of Malaysia.
I'm not nationalistic :P
1945 - President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
This one I know, cos the bombing was a few days before and after :S It forever associate the day with suffering *prophetic* I would say
1990 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90 i.e. 1234567890.
And this is an interesting thing- 1990? What was I doing then? Most probably sleeping :P
2 births
1966 - Jimmy Wales, American founder of Wikipedia
HAHAHAHA
1975 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
This one I must mention. And you would have thought she was younger- but my age?! I think I need some serious make over :P
1 death
461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
Arh, but is the date accurate?
AA
Now I know AA's one is definitely more interesting than mine :P
3 neat facts
1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1934 - Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials hanged.
2 births
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
1 death
1946 - Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900) 1946 - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877) 1946 - Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890) 1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903) 1946 - Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882) 1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893) 1946 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893) 1946 - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1892) 1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1894) 1946 - Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
I digress, but AA would have liked to be know this. And technically, their deaths and lives were entwined.
Keith
Keith is forunate to be born near holidays :) and 2 days after his gong gong's b-day too!
3 neat facts
537 - The Hagia Sophia is completed.
1831 - Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, where he will formulate the theory of evolution.
2002 - Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
2 births
1571 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
1654 - Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705
1822 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)
With 3 great scientists on the same date...
And not forgetting Xiao Jiu Jiu too
1 death
1923 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (b. 1832)
and
It's a holiday :)
R.C. Saints - John the Apostle and Evangelist
Jess
My little princess!
3 neat facts
1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
The beauty who commissioned a monument
1972 - Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
The incident that toppled a president
1987 - With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
2 births
1882 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
1832 - Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
1 death
1463 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436)
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the years.
Mine!
Wah! So many to sieve through :P
3 neat facts
1965 - Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation of Malaysia.
I'm not nationalistic :P
1945 - President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
This one I know, cos the bombing was a few days before and after :S It forever associate the day with suffering *prophetic* I would say
1990 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90 i.e. 1234567890.
And this is an interesting thing- 1990? What was I doing then? Most probably sleeping :P
2 births
1966 - Jimmy Wales, American founder of Wikipedia
HAHAHAHA
1975 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
This one I must mention. And you would have thought she was younger- but my age?! I think I need some serious make over :P
1 death
461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
Arh, but is the date accurate?
AA
Now I know AA's one is definitely more interesting than mine :P
3 neat facts
1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1934 - Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials hanged.
2 births
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
1 death
I digress, but AA would have liked to be know this. And technically, their deaths and lives were entwined.
Keith
Keith is forunate to be born near holidays :) and 2 days after his gong gong's b-day too!
3 neat facts
537 - The Hagia Sophia is completed.
1831 - Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, where he will formulate the theory of evolution.
2002 - Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
2 births
1571 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
1654 - Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705
1822 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)
With 3 great scientists on the same date...
And not forgetting Xiao Jiu Jiu too
1 death
1923 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (b. 1832)
and
It's a holiday :)
R.C. Saints - John the Apostle and Evangelist
Jess
My little princess!
3 neat facts
1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
The beauty who commissioned a monument
1972 - Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
The incident that toppled a president
1987 - With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
2 births
1882 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
1832 - Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
1 death
1463 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436)