So here's mine for 10th June
by la_spice @ 2008-10-07 - 11:41:46A blog friend of mine (who will remain anonymous unless you click on the link!)
doesn't like the fact that he has another birthday looming. So I thought I might make the idea of birthdays more appealling by doing the following meme.
Here goes - this was copied off Subs …… who ‘nicked’ it from Purple Dragon…… who ‘borrowed’ it etc…….
The rules are "google" just the day and month of your birth, go into the Wikipedia entry for that date and then choose four events, three births, two deaths, and one holiday...
4 EVENTS
1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
( horrors , I believe I was there 
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1947 - Saab produces its first automobile.
1977 - Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.
1996 - Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Féin.
3 BIRTHS
1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher
1819 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden
2 DEATHS
323 BC - Alexander the Great, Macedonian warlord (b. 356 BC)
1926 - Antoni Gaudí, Spanish, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
I HOLIDAY
Roman Empire – fourth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
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LaraDart
20th September:
4 events:
1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlϊcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
1990 - South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
3 births
1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
1911 - Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991)
1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
2 deaths
1246 - Mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev
1999 - Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail
Gorbachev (b. 1932)
1 holiday
In ancient Greece, the seventh day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began...
intetesting...thanks for sharing the idea!
xxx