How bored am I?

[monkeybard]

Still, it is a fun and educational meme that I have nicked from brightbeak   .

Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (month/day) and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.

Events:

• 1606 - The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
• 1710 - The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain.
• 1866 - The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
• Bonus event: 1912 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.

Birthdays:

• 1915 - Harry Morgan, American actor
• 1950 - Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player

Holiday:

• James, Azadanus and Abdicius

I'm not sure why the occasion of someone's beheading would be commemorated by a feast day, but I have never pretended to understand martyrdom.

Comments

[fisherbear.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll bite.

1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1974 - Lucy (Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

1554 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)
1835 - Mark Twain, American writer (d. 1910)

The obvious choice of holiday would be St. Andrew's Day, but for various reasons I think I prefer "Official end of the Hurricane season."

[monkeybard]

Oo! Folies Bergere. Lucy. Mark Twain. Hurricanes. Very cool.