Wikipedia meme
Meme: Three Cool Things, Two Births, Two Deaths on Your Birthday (from Wikipedia)
I don't follow directions well. None of my lists is the appropriate amount of items.
Cool Things:
1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers -- men, women, and children -- are killed by American troops.
2001 - The only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves, according to a health survey.
Births:
1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1911 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
1941 - Chuck Woolery, American game show host
1948 - Margaret Weis, American author
1949 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
1961 - Todd McFarlane, Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
Deaths:
37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
1485 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
1971 - Thomas Dewey, American presidential candidate (b. 1902)
Observance:
The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome
I don't follow directions well. None of my lists is the appropriate amount of items.
Cool Things:
1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers -- men, women, and children -- are killed by American troops.
2001 - The only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves, according to a health survey.
Births:
1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1911 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
1941 - Chuck Woolery, American game show host
1948 - Margaret Weis, American author
1949 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
1961 - Todd McFarlane, Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
Deaths:
37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
1485 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
1971 - Thomas Dewey, American presidential candidate (b. 1902)
Observance:
The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome