Yesterday was my birthday. I don't really know if anything ever happened on my birthday, like a big world event or some really notable birth, so I thought I'd take a look. Basically, my birthday is sorta' boring, with the exception of my glorious sprouting back in '82. Here's other stuff I found.
Events:
1775 - The United States Army was founded.
1777 - John Adams introduces a resolution in the Continental Congress describing the future flag of the United States (Hence, Flag Day).
1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1937 - U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
1938 - Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
1940 - Germans enter Paris.
1940 - The Nazis opened a concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland.
1966 - The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
People:
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author/abolitionist (Litchfield, CT; died 1896)
1820 - John Bartlett, editor/compiler of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Plymouth, MA; died 1905)
1928 - Che (Ernesto) Guevara, Latin American guerrilla leader (Argentina; died 1967)
1946 - "The Donald" Trump, real estate executive (New York, NY)
1961 - Boy George, singer (London, England)
1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, actress (New York, NY)
1969 - Steffi Graf, tennis player (Bruhl, West Germany)
Holidays
Flag Day (USA)
Mother's Day (Afghanistan)
1 comment:
Harriet Beecher Stowe, that's kinda cool, but Yasmine Bleeth? Oh well, at least it's not Cho Seung-Hui, Korean-American mass murderer (Virginia Tech Massacre) (d. 2007).
Post a Comment