Rich Leonardi tags me:
The Rules:
1) Go to Wikipedia.
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday.
4) List two important birthdays and one death.
5) One holiday or observance (if any).
Events:
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
I first read that in a "Big Book of Facts" I had as a kid and it always fascinated me. Everyone went straight from October 4th to the 15th.
1921 - Baseball: The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
It figures. In my family, when I was growing up, we had a tradition that on yor birthday, you got to ride in the front seat of the car, you got to have your favorite food for dinner, and you got to choose what the family watched on TV that evening. Except I never got to pick the TV show
because the playoffs were always on. Boo hoo! (Well, it seemed like a horrible injustice at the time.)
1969 - The first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Speaking of TV, this is a milestone, don't you agree.
Births:
- 1882 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
- Václav Havel, playwright and President of the Czech Republic
(what, you wanted I should highlight Teresa Heinz Kerry?)
Deaths: 1938 - Saint Faustina Polish religious (b. 1905)
As of 2000, my birthday is her feast day.
I'd like to count that as the "holiday," but if I can't, I'm stuck with International World Teachers' Day. Give your favorite teacher a Certificate of Redundancy Certificate for that one!
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