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Friday night's all right for memeing.
I am feeling crappy, and have been approximately since that stupid fire alarm. I'm self-medicating with Diet Coke, Fig Newtons, television, and Wikipedia.
You feed in the date of your birth, minus the year, to Wikipedia, and report back 3 interesting events, 2 births, and 1 death.
Events:
202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
(Anything involving Hannibal makes me sit up and point excitedly, because tradition has it that my mother's family - on both sides, those small-village Italians get a bit inbred - are the descendants of the loyal troops who stayed with their king and repelled Hannibal during the Punic Wars.)
1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of ToruĊ. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
(Also a sit-up-and-point fact: my father's father's father is presumed ethnic Pomeranian on the basis of his last name, and emigrated from Gdansk, then Danzig.)
1781 - Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American Revolutionary War.
(My personal favorite fact for my birthday--I never had any trouble remembering either the date of Cornwallis' surrender, or the date of the first shots at Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, because the latter is my half-birthday, exactly six and a half years before the end of the shooting war.)
Births:
1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
(He has a limit! And I think it's something to do with the sizes of stars, but that was freshman-year Intro to Astronomy, so it's a bit fuzzy.)
1965 - Ty Pennington, American television carpenter
(Ty! Also, come on, his three-word Wikipedia biography is American television carpenter.)
Deaths:
1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
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commodorified, who's been on a bit of a poetry kick, just recently posted her poem "Conscientious Objector," which begins: I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.)
You feed in the date of your birth, minus the year, to Wikipedia, and report back 3 interesting events, 2 births, and 1 death.
Events:
202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
(Anything involving Hannibal makes me sit up and point excitedly, because tradition has it that my mother's family - on both sides, those small-village Italians get a bit inbred - are the descendants of the loyal troops who stayed with their king and repelled Hannibal during the Punic Wars.)
1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of ToruĊ. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
(Also a sit-up-and-point fact: my father's father's father is presumed ethnic Pomeranian on the basis of his last name, and emigrated from Gdansk, then Danzig.)
1781 - Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American Revolutionary War.
(My personal favorite fact for my birthday--I never had any trouble remembering either the date of Cornwallis' surrender, or the date of the first shots at Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, because the latter is my half-birthday, exactly six and a half years before the end of the shooting war.)
Births:
1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
(He has a limit! And I think it's something to do with the sizes of stars, but that was freshman-year Intro to Astronomy, so it's a bit fuzzy.)
1965 - Ty Pennington, American television carpenter
(Ty! Also, come on, his three-word Wikipedia biography is American television carpenter.)
Deaths:
1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
(
commodorified, who's been on a bit of a poetry kick, just recently posted her poem "Conscientious Objector," which begins: I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.)