Wikipedia Fun
The instructions state that you should go to Wikipedia.org and enter your birthdate without the year. List three facts, two births, and one death that occured on that day. I will be taking those numbers as suggested minimums.
Events:
622 - Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina. (The oldest one listed for that date. Pretty cool.)
1493 - Christopher Columbus departs on his second expedition to the New World. (In which Columbus took slaves in defiance of an order from the Spanish monarchy not to and imposed a system by which natives who did not turn over a certain amount of gold would get their hands chopped off. Fun guy.)
1789 - The United States Supreme Court and the position of Attorney General are established. (Two brnaches of government were not enough.)
1789 - The United States Post Office Department is established. (Prior to this, people jus threw letters out their windows as paper airplanes.)
1852 - The first airship is displayed. (Laying the groundwork for thos to come in "Final Fantasy".)
1869 - "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet as Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market. (Yeah, there are a couple of these "not so good" events in here)
1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy. (They later moved on to making informative PSAs to teach kids morals.)
1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends United States National Guard troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. (No quip for this one.)
1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith. (I guess that thing in 1957 didn't fix everything.)
2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana. (One of only two events for that date in my life time and it has to be this.)
Births:
1564 - William Adams, British navigator and samurai (How many people can claim both of those on their resume?)
1724 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (Yes, that Guiness)
1755 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (Longest tenure as Chief Justice in the court's history.)
1871 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (Listed by the 1803 fellow's Book fo World Records as the Most Versatile Feamle Athlete.
1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (I read "The Great Gatsby" in high school.)
1936 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990) (I actually knew this already.)
1941 - Linda McCartney, American singer and activist (d. 1998) (And she was on "The Simpsons". Just like...)
1948 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d. 1998) (Knew this too. Died too young, along with Jim Henson.)
1950 - Alan Colmes, American talk show host (Oh goody.)
1958 - Kevin Sorbo, American actor (Cool!)
1959 - Steve Whitmire, American voice actor (Probably made for a big birthday celebration at Henson Studios.)
Deaths (not nearly as many):
768 - Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (But did they call him that while he was alive?)
1991 - Dr. Seuss, American children's writer (b. 1904) (Pretty sure I knew that too.)
Whoo, that took a while. OK, what's next?
Stupid Pet Fun
| adopt your own virtual pet! |
Apparently, hedgehogs eat strawberries and bounce. There's a decent variety of animals available, including a wolf. (I'm looking at you, Kim.)
I'm poking around, but nothing else is striking me asomething fun to do with my blog. So here's a favorite clip of mine off of YouTube.
Actual news sometime later, maybe.
