Something fun! (but no knitting, sorry)
I saw this on another blog, and thought I'd try it myself. Go to Wikipedia and type in the month and day of your birthday. All sorts of groovy things come up.
Significant Events for May 27th
1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1895 - Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
1930 - The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
1963 - Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
Famous people who share my birthday
Cornelius Vanderbilt - entrepreneur
Amelia Bloomer - suffragette
Wild Bill Hickok - gunfighter
Dashiell Hammett - writer
Rachel Carson - scientist and writer
Vincent Price - actor
John Cheever - writer
Bruce Cockburn - musician
Siouxsie Sioux - musician
Neil Finn - musician
Joseph Fiennes - actor
Famous people who died on my birthday
John Calvin - French religious reformer
Niccolo Paganini - violinist and composer
Jawaharlal Nehru - Indian politician
Holidays and Observances
Mother's Day in Bolivia
Children's Day in Nigeria
I like the holidays the best. :o)
posted by Sally @ 11:56 AM
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2 Comments:
Look your birthday is a national holiday in Bolivia!!
You and Joseph Fiennes share a birthday.. he's not as evil as his brother and he's rumored to play one of my favorite composers so not too shabby ;-)
Here are a couple of biggies from my birthday.
1912 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage, plunging beneath the waves and taking with it over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the following morning.
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
This is fun thanks! Hmm, maybe "fun" is a poor choice of words given the grim events that have occured on my birthday!
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