Meme from a mailing list

[original_aj]

Bela Lugosi, Elvis and Idi Amin died on my birthday. Madonna & Ulrika Johnson share my birthday. The Peterloo Massacre and the Klondike goldstrike were on my birthday (though a bit before my time!) What happened on yours?

Comments

[batswing.livejournal.com]

I ate chinese. :)

Here's another:

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

Nice, but hardly momentous!

Re: Here's another:

[batswing.livejournal.com]

It was a fairly significant chinese.

[zotz]

Cromwell became Lord protector. Parliament adopted the Bill of Rights. The Batlle of Blood River was fought. The New World Symphony received its premiere. Rasputin, Saint-Saens, Somerset Maugham and Lee van Cleef died. I share my birthday with Beethoven, Jane Austen, Noel Coward, Margaret Meade, Arthur C Clarke, Philip K Dick, Benny from Abba and Bill Hicks.

[grendelis.livejournal.com]

Not a lot it would seem (according to the BBC). I know I share it with Midge Ure and a guy I was at college with. I have no intension of making it memorable. I'll leave that up to someone else. Unlike others, *This* lady's happy to turn over and go back to sleep.

[xenarachne.livejournal.com]

Tunguska Event (1908) and no, I didn't walk out of the smouldering remains of the meterorite... :D

[gflinty.livejournal.com]

Treaty of Paris where France gave up all colonial rights in north america.

murder of Henry Darnley (Mary queen of scots' squeeze), Victoria got married, HMS Dreadnought was launched (aces), Scott of the antarctic and his party was found, US spy plane pilot was swapped for a KGB agent, Docklands bombing in 1996, first indian national elections, US navy relocates people in the pacific.

Births : Harold Macmillan, William Congreve, Samuel Plimsoll, Joyce Grenfell (aces), Robert Wagner, Greg Norman.

Deaths : Joseph Lister (pioneer of antiseptic), Edgar Richard Horatio Wallace, Alex Hayley.

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

I share my birthday with Mahatma Ghandi, Sting, Groucho Marx, Graham Greene and Don Maclean, for what it's worth...

[nickys.livejournal.com]

A North Sea oil drilling barge http://www.dukeswoodoilmuseum.co.uk/offshore%20history.htm

Tales of Higgly-Piggly Farm
http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/smalltime2.htm

and Helmet Kohl
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Europe.htm

apparently...

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Nothing of any importance, apparently. Although there'll be a full lunar eclipse in 2017.

[legobump.livejournal.com]

Mines Worlds Aids Day!