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michiexile ([personal profile] michiexile) wrote2008-08-15 09:05 pm

Birthday meme

Meme from [livejournal.com profile] reynardo.

Wikipedia your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday:

Four Events
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States.
1947 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.

Three Births
1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist

Two Deaths
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
1976 - Mao Zedong, Founder and first leader of the People's Republic of China (b. 1893)

One Holiday
California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).

Bonus mention: in the eastern Orthodoxy, September 9th is the day to celebrate the Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Saint Joachim and Saint Anne (parents of Mary the Mother of God)