Birthday meme!
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Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (month/day) and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.
Supposedly the day of my birth is intertwined with a few things related to Steve McQueen. Including Steve McQueen.
Frickin' SWEET.
Events:
1) 1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.. (and many people I know would say they should have finished the job.)
2) 1900 - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. (*tear* I love you public transportation)
3) 1944 - World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III. (Which later lead to Steve McQueen trying to jump the border on a motorcycle, and David McCallum getting shot on train tracks.)
Births:
1) 1901 - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist
2) 1930 - Steve McQueen, American actor (YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW COOL I FIND THIS TO BE)
Holiday:
Dyngus Day in Poland, or Easter Monday. Where all good Polish Catholics appear to dump buckets of water on each other, and traditionally, hit girls' legs with willow switches. Why do I feel like this holiday should have originated on Wonder Woman's Paradise Island?
bpdermodyGo over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (month/day) and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.
Supposedly the day of my birth is intertwined with a few things related to Steve McQueen. Including Steve McQueen.
Frickin' SWEET.
Events:
1) 1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.. (and many people I know would say they should have finished the job.)
2) 1900 - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. (*tear* I love you public transportation)
3) 1944 - World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III. (Which later lead to Steve McQueen trying to jump the border on a motorcycle, and David McCallum getting shot on train tracks.)
Births:
1) 1901 - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist
2) 1930 - Steve McQueen, American actor (YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW COOL I FIND THIS TO BE)
Holiday:
Dyngus Day in Poland, or Easter Monday. Where all good Polish Catholics appear to dump buckets of water on each other, and traditionally, hit girls' legs with willow switches. Why do I feel like this holiday should have originated on Wonder Woman's Paradise Island?
