Wikipedia Meme taken from many...
1. Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at http://wikipedia.org.
2. List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday. (Or however many you want, as I have done below).
August 4th-
Events:
1265 - The Battle of Evesham of the Second Barons' War is fought in Worcestershire, with the army of future King Edward I of England defeating the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and killing de Montfort and many of his allies. This is sometimes considered the death of chivalry in England.
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
1735 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
1753 - George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry.
1892 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1944 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1964 - American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
Births:
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971) (included him because of "What a Wonderful World", and he died the year I was born).
1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestine leader (d. 2004)
1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian (gotta love him on Law & Order!)
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1961 - Barack Obama, American politician
1968 - Daniel Dae Kim, American actor (love him on Lost, even though he doesn't speak English on it)
Deaths:
1060 - King Henry I of France (b. 1008)
1306 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
1741 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
I decided not to include holidays or other special observances, since I went so overboard on the categories that I did include.
2. List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday. (Or however many you want, as I have done below).
August 4th-
Events:
1265 - The Battle of Evesham of the Second Barons' War is fought in Worcestershire, with the army of future King Edward I of England defeating the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and killing de Montfort and many of his allies. This is sometimes considered the death of chivalry in England.
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
1735 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
1753 - George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry.
1892 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1944 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1964 - American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
Births:
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971) (included him because of "What a Wonderful World", and he died the year I was born).
1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestine leader (d. 2004)
1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian (gotta love him on Law & Order!)
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1961 - Barack Obama, American politician
1968 - Daniel Dae Kim, American actor (love him on Lost, even though he doesn't speak English on it)
Deaths:
1060 - King Henry I of France (b. 1008)
1306 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
1741 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
I decided not to include holidays or other special observances, since I went so overboard on the categories that I did include.