The meme-ing impulse goes against the grain of my mental processes, and being tagged usually makes me break out in hives. But this one from Geoffrey was refreshingly unchallenging. Here are the rules:
1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday, month and day only
2. List 3 events that occurred on that da
3. List 2 important birthdays
4. List one notable transition
5. List a holiday or observance (if any)
6. Tag five of your friends
And here’s how I fared:
1. My birthday
2. Three events (would love to have posted some Caribbean ones, but Wikipedia didn’t list any)
1903 – The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It crashes, and 3 days later, after repairs, they get it to fly.
1911 – Roald Amundsen‘s team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
1959 – The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy.
3. Two birthdays
1503 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)
1546 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (d. 1601)
4. One notable transition
1989 – Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
5. Holidays
R.C. Saints – Memorial of Saint John of the Cross
6. Tag five friends
Jeremy, Amira, Veronica, Oso, Jonathan and any other memeaholic who cares to try.
Dec 20.
1996 – NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X. ( oh sure there were wars and things like that ..but I picked the important event to lead).
69 – Vespasian, a former general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of emperor.
1192 – Richard the Lion-Heart was captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the crusade.
Birthdays…slim pickings.
1927 – Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea
1957 – Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter
Transition ( aka dey dead)
1996 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (b. 1934)
R.C. Saints – Saint Dominic of Silos, O Clavis, Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne
Friends? What are those???
Should have known you were a Sagittarian, Vernon!
This also reminds me that you don’t have a blog…. or at least one that I know of.
I started one Georgia but honestly producing a daily newscasts is blog enough for me. I fear if I actually had time to do a blog my vitriolic nature would give me away to the reader and might peg me as a more negative person than I actually am. I will live vicariously through your blog and Jeremy Taylor’s .
Damn that button! That s/b “producing daily newscasts”
Georgia, glad to have provided some amusement for you.
Caribbean Wiki, hmmmmmmm
September 11
First I had to look up “meme” to see what it meant. I’m still not sure.
EVENTS
1906 Mahatma Gandhi launches non-violence movement, Satyagraha
1973 President Salvador Allende of Chile is murdered in a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet and supported by you-know-who; Chile turns from a democracy into a tyranny
2001 When I show my passport to immigration officials they tend to say, “Ah, you were born on 9/11, no one’s going to forget YOUR birthday!”
BIRTHDAYS
3 BC Jesus of Nazareth (according to American archeologist Ernest Martin)
1885 D.H. Lawrence, my once-favourite novelist
A NOTABLE TRANSITION
1987 Death of Peter Tosh
HOLIDAYS ETC.
New Year’s Day according to the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars. Light and renewal.
FRIENDS
I wouldn’t dare.
(Is all this auspicious or what?)