Birthday memeage

[gemfyre]

Go to wikipedia.org and search for your birthday without the year and list three events, three births, and three deaths that occurred on your birthday throughout history.

October 12

Events

1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia

1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

1994 - NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14)

And sorry, I must add two more. Kinda depressing events.

1999 - The Day of 6 Billion: The 6 billionth human in the world is born.

2002 - Bali bombing: In Bali, terrorists detonate bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, killing 202 and wounding over 300

Births

1875 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist and author (d. 1947)

1968 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer

1970 - Kirk Cameron, American actor - I remember knowing and rembering this in my early teens.

Deaths

638 - Pope Honorius I

642 - Pope John IV

1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)

Not a good date for popes!

Comments

[softpaw.livejournal.com]

ok..the three people for your births makes me giggle. Thats a combanation!

[softpaw.livejournal.com]

btw..your links dun work.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Exactly 4 years between the Popes, too. I wonder if there's a reason for that?

And I remember Kirk Cameron! I had such a crush on him when I was 10...

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

It probably wasn't a good day for John Denver, either :P

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Hey hey.

That free TV ended up costing me $160. Bought a shiny new TV stand for it today because the one we had was too small. :) But now we'll be able to watch DVDs on a big screen in the loungeroom, instead of a teeny weeny screen in the bedroom.

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

*shudder* you share a birthday with Aleister Crowley...

and JOhn denver died on your birthday so I guess it isn't all that bad...