birthdate meme
Apr. 7th, 2006 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoon1. 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)
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)
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this is interesting :)
Date: 2006-04-07 04:44 pm (UTC)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)