Gonna do memes like it's yur birfday.

[jackshoegazer]

Go 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 14^th

EVENTS

• 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.

BIRTHS

• 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

DEATHS

• 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.

Comments

[goshdarnheck.livejournal.com]

Hm...this is an interesting idea.
I hope you don't mind if I do this in my LJ.



-Jen.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Not at all! Enjoy!

[maeghanne.livejournal.com]

Billy the kid? I think that's the coolest thing I've seen on anyone's. (Except mine and that whole Pompeii thing.. haha)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

The Great July 13th, 1977 NYC blackout started the night my mother went into labor and continued until I was born :P

[maeghanne.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!! That's funny!

[anubis75.livejournal.com]

1789 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.

1933 - Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party

Talk about a push from the left and a shove from the right. And Jacques Chirac gets caught in the crossfire ; )

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It must be the heat of the summer that makes everyone nuts :P

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Aw, Apple, Star Wars...my little geek!

And I had an Archbishop of Canterbury on my birthday list, too.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Oooh, a common ancestor or soul friend :)

[schmecky.livejournal.com]

You have a FUTURE one in there - that's rad.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

At least I know my natal future is intact! :D