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 
)
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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