Because I'm too tired to think
Apr. 7th, 2006 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamusedinatxAnother Meme going around. Type in your birth day and month (not the year) into wikipedia and note interesting events that took place on your birthday and interesting people who share your birthday.
Events:
# 1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published on October 18, 1851 by Richard Bentley, London.
# 1889 - Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
# 1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
# 1940 - World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers.
# 1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.
# 1978 - Jonestown Massacre: 913 people commit suicide by drinking a cyanide laced punch.
# 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
# 1982 - Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
# 2002 - The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
Births:
* 1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
* 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
* 1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
* 1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
* 1908 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator and anti-communist (d. 1957) (fuck)
* 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary-General
* 1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State double-fuck
Events:
# 1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published on October 18, 1851 by Richard Bentley, London.
# 1889 - Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
# 1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
# 1940 - World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers.
# 1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.
# 1978 - Jonestown Massacre: 913 people commit suicide by drinking a cyanide laced punch.
# 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
# 1982 - Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
# 2002 - The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
Births:
* 1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
* 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
* 1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
* 1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
* 1908 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator and anti-communist (d. 1957) (fuck)
* 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary-General
* 1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State double-fuck
