Birthday Wikipedia Meme
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
OK, my birthday is 7 July (1982):
Events:
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Premier Yuri Andropov
2005 - Terrorist explosions occur on the London Underground network and on a London Bus.
Births:
1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646).
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911).
Death:
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
I am most interested in all of the people who share my birthday. There are so many, includling Shelley Duvall and Ringo Starr!! Cool!! I knew about Mahler, and it's something that I always tell other musicologists, but I didn't know about Thomas Howard. Very interesting, since I was just recently reading about him for dissertation research!
OK, my birthday is 7 July (1982):
Events:
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Premier Yuri Andropov
2005 - Terrorist explosions occur on the London Underground network and on a London Bus.
Births:
1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646).
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911).
Death:
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
I am most interested in all of the people who share my birthday. There are so many, includling Shelley Duvall and Ringo Starr!! Cool!! I knew about Mahler, and it's something that I always tell other musicologists, but I didn't know about Thomas Howard. Very interesting, since I was just recently reading about him for dissertation research!