Paranoia has passed after waking self up with tons of sugar.
A meme:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three million neat facts, three hundred births and three deaths in your journal, including the year.
597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. (Sucks to be you, buddy. That's 13 days of dying.)
1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established. (The only one who would care about this is Dusty, and he doesn't even read LJs)
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1912 - Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time." & I guess he died then?
1914 - Henriette Caillaux, wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmet, the editor of Le Figaro. No! Gaston~!
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
1963 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali - 11,000 dead
1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard of 1993).
1998 - Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust. Took him long enough.
2001 - The only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves, according to a health survey. Aw yay, a happy one! ...sorta.
Birthdays:
1338 - Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)
1750 - Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (d. 1848)
1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1774 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia (d. 1814)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan, (d. 1846)
1856 - Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph, called Napoleon IV, the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1879)
1911 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1959 - Flavor Flav, American rapper
1961 - Todd McFarlane, Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur (A la Marvel Comics and McFarlane action figures)
1963 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC) Did they just have the coolest names or what?
Also also with: The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome
The Bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Roman god Bacchus. Introduced into Rome from lower Italy by way of Etruria (c. 200 BC), the bacchanalia were held in secret and attended by women only, on three days in the year in the grove of Simila near the Aventine Hill.
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three million neat facts, three hundred births and three deaths in your journal, including the year.
597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. (Sucks to be you, buddy. That's 13 days of dying.)
1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established. (The only one who would care about this is Dusty, and he doesn't even read LJs)
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1912 - Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time." & I guess he died then?
1914 - Henriette Caillaux, wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmet, the editor of Le Figaro. No! Gaston~!
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
1963 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali - 11,000 dead
1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard of 1993).
1998 - Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust. Took him long enough.
2001 - The only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves, according to a health survey. Aw yay, a happy one! ...sorta.
Birthdays:
1338 - Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)
1750 - Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (d. 1848)
1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1774 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia (d. 1814)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan, (d. 1846)
1856 - Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph, called Napoleon IV, the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1879)
1911 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1959 - Flavor Flav, American rapper
1961 - Todd McFarlane, Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur (A la Marvel Comics and McFarlane action figures)
1963 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC) Did they just have the coolest names or what?
Also also with: The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome
The Bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Roman god Bacchus. Introduced into Rome from lower Italy by way of Etruria (c. 200 BC), the bacchanalia were held in secret and attended by women only, on three days in the year in the grove of Simila near the Aventine Hill.