Three posts in one day! Let’s make it four.
“Go to Wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don’t put in the year. Post in your LJ blog with three neat/important events, two births, and two deaths!”
Events
1945 – Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.
1978 – Newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing burglars at a farm, leading to famous murder trial.
2001 – Commencement of combatant activities in Afghanistan
Births
86 – Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor
1941 – Mama Cass Elliot, American musician
Deaths
1942 – Condé Nast, American publisher
1985 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer
I also share a birthday with Hermione Granger of the Harold Potter novels which is quite LJ-tastic and something I wasn’t previously aware of.
Snarfed from Steve
Harold Potter ? Was that deliberate ?
I liked doing this – was nice to realise somebody other than Richard Branson and Nick Faldo share my birthday.
25th April…
Events –
1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
1993 – 300,000 gay, lesbian, transgender, and allied activists march on Washington, DC demanding freedom from discrimination.
Births –
1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist
1911 – Jack Ruby, American assassin
Deaths -
1937 – Micha? Drzyma?a, Polish rebel
2002 – Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, rapper
29th July…
Events
1954 – The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings, is published in the UK.
1966 – Musician Bob Dylan crashes his Triumph motorcycle in upstate New York. He goes into seclusion for over a year before reemerging and reinventing himself artistically.
1981 – Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.
Births
1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1973 – Stephen Dorff, American actor (same year as me too)
Deaths
1890 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
1974 – Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941) (born on the same day as Pete I see)
Ok, April 23rd. Here goes:
Events:
1867 – William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first appearance in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1994 – Physicists discover the top quark subatomic particle.
Births:
1564 – William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright [uncertain] (d. 1616)
1939 – Lee Majors, American actor
Deaths:
1616 – Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547) – Same day as Shakespeare’s death too. Weird huh?
1850 – William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770)
Events:
1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1954 – Bill Haley and the Comets release “Rock Around the Clock”, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts
1994 – The U.S. state of Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murder of 33 young men and boys
Births:
1955 – Mark David Chapman, American assassin of John Lennon
1957 – Sid Vicious, English bassist (The Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
Deaths:
1774 – King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
1999 – Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)
Alternative take on May 10th:
Events:
1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
(although I was upset to learn as a kid that they then dug the spike up again and stuck it in a museum)
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972
1996 – A “rogue storm” near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain’s history.
Births:
1946 – Donovan, Scottish musician
1958 – Yu Suzuki, creator of Virtua Fighter series
Deaths:
1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer
1863 – Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general