I saw this MEME on another blog and decided to do it myself...
Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
July 11:
Events:
1804 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1859 - A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published. (neato, especially considering the title of my last post...)
1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
Births:
1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (d. 1329) (Remember "Braveheart" ?)
1899 - E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985) (Ahh, Charlotte's Web! Stuart Little! The Elements of Style!)
Death:
1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (b. 1907)
I'll add another category, just for fun
Holidays and observances:
United Nations - World Population Day
United States: Free Slurpee at 7-Eleven
And because it was yesterday, Jason's birthday
April 20:
Events:
1653 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament. (I've always loved that term "Rump Parliament")
1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon.
and I have to add one more because it sounds so strange...
1979 - President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a Swamp Rabbit while on vacation in Plains, Georgia.
Births:
570 - Muhammad, Founder of Islam (d. 632)
1923 - Mother Angelica (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo), American nun and broadcaster
and one more since it is also the same year as Jason:
1976 - Joey Lawrence, American actor ("Whoa!")
Death:
1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
Holidays and observances:
National High Five Day
I've also decided to join Project Spectrum so I'll be posting pictures featuring different colors each month... April is yellow and orange...and to get started I took a picture of what is on the passenger seat of my car...
And, finally, cats.
Nala, our cat:
And Scrub, Nala's feral friend who hangs around hoping for food:
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