My Day
Swiped from Solonor via Sherri
This is what you do:
1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday.
2. Find 3 events that happened on that day.
3. Find 2 other people who were born that day.
4. Find 1 holiday that is celebrated on that day.
I'm going to add a bit. (Added by Sherri)
5. Find 2 other people who died on that day.
Because (she's) morbid like that."
Events:
1349 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, were rounded up and incinerated.
1858 - Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
1905 - According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
Birthdays:
1929 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
1881 - Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
Holiday:
Black Nazarene feast in the Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines
Deaths:
1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
This is what you do:
1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday.
2. Find 3 events that happened on that day.
3. Find 2 other people who were born that day.
4. Find 1 holiday that is celebrated on that day.
I'm going to add a bit. (Added by Sherri)
5. Find 2 other people who died on that day.
Because (she's) morbid like that."
Events:
Birthdays:
Holiday:
Deaths:
posted by Little Kenny at 4/11/2008 07:36:00 AM
3 Comments:
I'm morbid, and YOU picked the serial killer and the horse lifter.
Horse lifter?
Well I tried to stick with the increased morbidity you kicked off and then ramped it up a bit. :D
Awesome little research project!
Here's mine
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Events:
8 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. (Those poor little deaf doggies had no chance against the Roman army!)
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
Birthdays:
1900 - John T. Scopes, American defendant (d. 1970)
1963 - James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica) \m/
Holidays:
Niger - Independence Day.
Deaths:
1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
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