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[lamia_prime]

Look, I could gripe about trivial things, or I can meme, okay?

From mrgrumpybear (Or rather, MrNotnearlysogrumpyasheusedtobebear)


Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

SEPTEMBER 29

3 Neat Facts:

61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.

48 BC - Ptolemy XIII of Egypt had Pompey murdered and his head cut off on his 58th birthday. Pompey's head and ring were kept for Julius Caesar. (ironic, no?)

1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

2 Births

2 BC - Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem of Judea. (Luke 2:1-7)

1982 - Ariana Jollee, American porn actress and director

1 Death

1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912) *cries*

Comments

[handymonkey]

:-P

[handymonkey]

Birth #1 blows that whole "Christmas" thing, doesn't it?

[lamia-prime.livejournal.com]

I plan to use that next Christmas with the in-laws, ohmymymyyes...

[ceosanna.livejournal.com]

Hey, that was a fun use of a few minutes ...

AUGUST 19

Facts:

293 BC - Oldest known Roman temple to Venus Libitina founded on the Esquiline Hill; institution of Vinalia Rustica begins.

1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Massachusetts five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.

1960 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 5 with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.

Births:

1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer

1921 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer

Death:

1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor

[utforsker.livejournal.com]

3 Neat Facts:
Uruguay - Beach day
1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.
1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.

2 Births:
1542 - Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
1936 - David Carradine, American actor

1 Death:
1978 - Golda Meir, Russian-born Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)

August 18

[master-mr.livejournal.com]

Facts:
1201 - The city of Riga is founded.

1541 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)

1572 - Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.

Births:
1587 - Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America (d. 1588)

1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)

Deaths:
1227 - Genghis Khan, Mongol leader (A dark day, indeed!)

Holiday:
RC saints - Saint Helena of Constantinople

[temair.livejournal.com]

* 1540 - Henry VIII of England annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
* 1942 - Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
* 1997 - Mike Tyson's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.

Births

* 1578 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
* 2005 - Tai Shan, giant panda born at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

(I got rid of Courtney Love, Tom Hanks and O.J. Simpson - barf).

Deaths

* 1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)


Holidays and observances

* Roman festival - Caprotinia, or feasts of Juno Caprotina.