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Birthday meme
Aug. 15th, 2008 09:05 pmMeme from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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)
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)
