adv_dp_fan (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} adv_dp_fan) wrote,@ 2008-08-19 13:06:00 |
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Cuz I don't really post
As directed by cbeveridge:
Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (month/day) and then pick 3 events, 2 births, 2 deaths and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday (btw, spell out the month)
Events:
1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th United States colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day). - (Picked because my daughter attended SCAD)
2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. (also the name of a cool store in Houston ^_~)
2004 - The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Births:
1954 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882)
Deaths:
1554 - Lord Guilford Dudley, consort of Lady Jane Grey (b. 1536)
1554 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the English throne (b. 1537)
Holiday:
National Freedom to Marry Day (unofficial) - not an official holiday but cool imo anyway ^_^
