birthdate meme

[alonewiththemoon]

1. Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at http://wikipedia.org/

2. List three interesting events, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

Events:

1187 - Saladin begins the Seige of Jerusalem
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlucar de barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match

Births:

1934, Sophia Lauren, Italian actress
1973, Asia Argento, Italian actress
(clearly I was born in the wrong country and have pursued the wrong profession)

Death:

1863 - Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)

Comments

this is interesting :)

[eeyrg.livejournal.com]

4/13

Events

1849 - Hungary becomes a republic
1902 - James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming
1970 - The oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew into deadly peril. The explosion occurred on April 14th in several time zones.

Births

1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
1950 - Ron Perlman, American actor
(i had to throw this in, it amused me) 1970 - Rick Schroder, American actor

Death

1695 - Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)

[bintblue.livejournal.com]

>>1934, Sophia Lauren, Italian actress
>>1973, Asia Argento, Italian actress
>>(clearly I was born in the wrong country and have
>>pursued the wrong profession)

Those are some cool women to share a b-day with! But hey--

"19??, Badriya Z, American Belly Dancer"

--is not too shabby!