History Meme

[xlcatloveress]

Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths, 3 holidays (snatched from takhallus)

January 6th

Events1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph

Comments

[heeroluva]

These things are always interesting.

Oct 21

Events
1600 - Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
2003 - Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.

I skipped births and deaths because I didn't recognize any of the names. XD

Holidays
Apple Day - UK
Overseas Chinese Day - China
International Day of the Nacho - Mexico and USA