Wikipedia Birthday Meme
I don't remember where I picked this up, but the rules are:
- Go to Wikipedia
- In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
- List three events that happened on your birthday
- List two important birthdays and one death
- One holiday or observance (if any)
On May 11 . . .
- 1310 - 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.
- 2006 - A science team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign successfully convert pig waste into crude oil.
- 1960 - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
- 1811 - Born: Chang and Eng Bunker, famous conjoined twins
- 1959 - Born: Martha Quinn, American television personality
- 1981 - Died: Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
- Holiday - Roman Empire - Feast of the Lemures
Wow! Nothing happened on mine! Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good weekend!
ReplyDeleteWell, I know which 5/11 happening is most important to me! I always liked Martha Quinn the best!
ReplyDeleteJust kidding, baby. Happy Birthday! Sweet 16, right?
Happy Birthday to you!!! Hope you are having a great day!
ReplyDeleteNot that it's my birthday but I thought I'd do it now so I don't forget. ;-)
Here are mine...June 27
events...
1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
2007 - Airdate for First Annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, awarded to Paul Simon
Births...
1930 - Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
1949 - Vera Wang, American fashion designer
Death...
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
Holiday...
National HIV Testing Day in United States
Happy birthday!
ReplyDeleteYou also share a birthday with my mother-in-law (this is a good thing).
Many happy returns of the day.
[L.]