Vanity, As Experienced in a Whole, New Way!

[misterplowdavid]

Go to wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat facts, two births, and two deaths and one holiday/observance in your journal including the year (of the event, not your birth

Comments

[rumzaz]

lol I really wanted to shout 'free mumia abu jamal!' when we were at this COUNTRY ass karaokee bar last weekend it would have been so hilarious!

DeKooning and the lollipop are cool, but you got no Ian Curtis.
and also, I share birthdays with
Johnny Thunders,
Jesse Ventura,
Linda Ronstadt

[elevatorboy13]

no ne in there would have had any idea who mumia was. had we been up north, however, taht ass woulda been kicked. had we been in philly you would have been toast.

oh HELL yeah.

[divine_right]

events:
1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.
1984 - Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.

births:
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet
1990 - JonBenét Ramsey, American beauty queen and murder victim

deaths:
1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)
2004 - Rick James, American musician

holiday/observance:
Christianity - Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ

Not a bad showing, all in all

[geekhooligan]

Events:
1304 - English King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold in the Wars of Scottish Independence, Stirling Castle. (pour a forty of stout out for my homies)
1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in the Great Britain.
1969 - MAN LANDS ON THE FUCKING GODDAMN MOON BITCHES. I DONE BLOWN YA'LL OUTTA THE WATER!

Birhts:
1304 - Petrarch
1947 - Carlos Santana

Deaths:
1973 - Bruce Lee
2005 - James Doohan