That Birthday Meme

[mojosmom]

Everyone's doing it!

Look up your birthday on Wikipedia. Choose 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday/observance.

Events:
64 - Great fire of Rome
1870 - The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
1968 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
1976 - Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Births:
1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English author
1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet

Deaths:
1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist
1899 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer

Holiday/observance:
Saint Theneva

Comments

[lucybrown61.livejournal.com]

Here are mine

Events
1608 - John Smith elected council president of Jamestown,Virginia
1939- Canada declares war on Nazi Germany
1963- 20 African-American students enter school in Alabama
1977-Last execution by guillotine in France. Hamida Djandoubi executed for torture and murder

Births
1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer
1886- Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist
1918 - Rin Tin Tin - dog

Deaths
1749 - Emilie du Chatelet, French mathematician and physicist
1935 - Huey Long -American politician

Holiday
Gibraltar- National Day

[greedyreader.livejournal.com]

I remember that Nadia Comaneci moment.