Meme of (your) day
Apr. 8th, 2006 01:21 pmThe Day of Birth meme, ganked from
rosewilliams:
Post three events, two births, and one death from your day of birth entry on Wikipedia (in this case, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_3).
Three events
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. [Twenty-eight days later, he would be killed.]
1800 - U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, DC (in a tavern – the White House was not yet completed).
1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
Two births
1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
One death
1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
The Flinders Petrie thing tickles me, because one of my relatives worked with him on several of his digs. Plus, seriation!
Post three events, two births, and one death from your day of birth entry on Wikipedia (in this case, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_3).
Three events
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. [Twenty-eight days later, he would be killed.]
1800 - U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, DC (in a tavern – the White House was not yet completed).
1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
Two births
1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
One death
1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
The Flinders Petrie thing tickles me, because one of my relatives worked with him on several of his digs. Plus, seriation!