Birthday Meme!
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kradical
Birthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Events:
1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
1805 - The Michigan Territory is created.
1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
1922 - First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
Births:
1395 - Michelle of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1422)
1961 - Jasper Fforde, British author (Woot!!)
1972 - Marc Blucas, American actor (Captain Cardboard!)
Deaths:
2007 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the 1st person to climb Mt Everest in 1953 (b. 1919)
Holiday:
Morocco - Independence Resistance Day (What... they're resisting independence?!)
kradicalBirthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Events:
1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
1805 - The Michigan Territory is created.
1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
1922 - First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
Births:
1395 - Michelle of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1422)
1961 - Jasper Fforde, British author (Woot!!)
1972 - Marc Blucas, American actor (Captain Cardboard!)
Deaths:
2007 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the 1st person to climb Mt Everest in 1953 (b. 1919)
Holiday:
Morocco - Independence Resistance Day (What... they're resisting independence?!)
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:51 pm (UTC)I stole it :D
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Date: 2008-08-12 06:26 pm (UTC)Yes, because apparently, being a French colony doesn't suck as much as being a *former* French colony. *snerk*
Poo. I have some religious festivals on my birthday, but no widely-recognized holidays.