I'm bored.
Feb. 28th, 2010 03:46 pmGo to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths and 3 holidays.
There is a lot to chose from in events so I chose first somewhere in the middle and towards the end.
1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
Births, again first last and somewhere in the middle.
1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1904 – Haim Shirman, Russsian-born Israeli professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry (d. 1981)
2001 Annelise Manojlovic, English actress (Who is this person, I've never heard of her.
Deaths
1035 – Sancho III of Navarre
1541 – Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
2008 – Dee Dee Warwick, American soul singer (b. 1945)
Holidays
There is a lot to chose from in events so I chose first somewhere in the middle and towards the end.
1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
Births, again first last and somewhere in the middle.
1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1904 – Haim Shirman, Russsian-born Israeli professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry (d. 1981)
2001 Annelise Manojlovic, English actress (Who is this person, I've never heard of her.
Deaths
1035 – Sancho III of Navarre
1541 – Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
2008 – Dee Dee Warwick, American soul singer (b. 1945)
Holidays
- R.C. Church, Anglican communion, et alii – Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist
- Saint Justus of Beauvais
- United States : Alaska: Alaska Day