Gonna do memes like it's yur birfday.
Apr. 7th, 2006 04:55 pmGo to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year).List at least three interesting events, two births and one death in your journal,including the year.
JULY 14th
And my own little addition... a few interesting things that happened the year of your birth.
JULY 14th
EVENTS
BIRTHS
- 1789 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
- 1798 - The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
- 1933 - Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
- 2002 - During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.
- 2015 - Expected date of a fly-by of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons satallite.
DEATHS
- 1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian
- 1829 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1913 - Gerald Ford, President of the United States
- 1966 - Matthew Fox, American actor
- 1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
- 1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint
- 1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw
- 2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic
And my own little addition... a few interesting things that happened the year of your birth.
NINETEEN SEVENTY-SEVEN
- January 27 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial UK punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
- May 25 - Star Wars opens in cinemas (later renamed as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope).
- June 5 - The first Apple II computers went on sale on this date.
- June 25 - US man Roy Sullivan is struck by lightning for the 7th time
- July 13 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.
- August 3 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
- September 8 - INTERPOL issues a resolution against piracy of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on videotapes and DVDs now.
- 2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaurs, discovered by Charlie Kowal.
- Color TV Game 6 is created by Nintendo.