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#187 - I swear I'm not doing the birthday theme on purpose!
Birthday Meme:
Look up your birthday in Wikipedia.
Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_7
EVENTS
322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great.
1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1945 - President Harry Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
BIRTHS
1560 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614)
1867 - Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
DEATHS
479 - Emperor Yuryaku of Japan
2005 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
HOLIDAY
Feast day of Saint Mary of Egypt [Cologne, Trier]
-Reileen
your heart makes the truth what you want to believe
Look up your birthday in Wikipedia.
Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_7
EVENTS
322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great.
1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1945 - President Harry Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
BIRTHS
1560 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614)
1867 - Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
DEATHS
479 - Emperor Yuryaku of Japan
2005 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
HOLIDAY
Feast day of Saint Mary of Egypt [Cologne, Trier]
-Reileen
your heart makes the truth what you want to believe
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i knew there was a reason we were friends. lol. XD
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Yeah, though, I was surprised that she and I had the same birthday. LOL I think I have to get crackin' on bleedin' out a couple o' virgins in my bathtub soon...