I’ve noticed the wiki birthday meme going around blogland, and decided to wait til my birthday to actually post it.
What you do:
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)
6) Tag 5 other bloggers to complete

Three events:

  • 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
  • 1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States.
  • 1945 - A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.

    • Two Birthdays:

  • 1866 - Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
  • 1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)

    • One death:

  • 1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)

    • One holiday or observance:

  • Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka Eve

    • (of course, I picked the one that’s closest to knitting)

    Five tags:
    by now, I figure most people that wanted to do this will have done it. that or they don’t generally do memes. so it seems pointless to make a list. if you haven’t done this yet, consider yourself tagged.