Birthday meme
Apr. 7th, 2006 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lls_mutantFrom everyone and their brother:
From everybody, go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday, (no year) and list 3 events, 2 births and a death that happened on that day.
Apparently my birthday sucked for Jews:
694 - Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. (Not a Jewish thing, but it was Jack the Ripper.)
1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
But it was good for science:
1921 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
1961 - Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6,587km/h flying a X-15. (Very important, as my grad work was on supersonic jet fuels.)
1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
Births:
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996) (The man who inadvertantly got me to believe in God, which would probably make this atheist spin in his grave.)
1941 - Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (My dad's favorite band was CCR.)
Deaths:
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
From everybody, go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday, (no year) and list 3 events, 2 births and a death that happened on that day.
Apparently my birthday sucked for Jews:
694 - Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. (Not a Jewish thing, but it was Jack the Ripper.)
1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
But it was good for science:
1921 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
1961 - Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6,587km/h flying a X-15. (Very important, as my grad work was on supersonic jet fuels.)
1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
Births:
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996) (The man who inadvertantly got me to believe in God, which would probably make this atheist spin in his grave.)
1941 - Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (My dad's favorite band was CCR.)
Deaths:
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
