Thrilled to be tagged by
ruebert, because no one ever tags me for memes.
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths, 3 holidays, and tag 3 friends.
Events:
* 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade. [The beginning of the end of Sakoku.]
* 1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years. [Hehehehe, you said 'sex'....heheheheh]
* 1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit). [An extra one because I feel so bad about including the next one. Also SPACE.]
* 1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE, takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
Births:
* 1596 – René Descartes
* 1932 – Ooshima Nagisa [Director responsible for Gohatto]
* 1977 – Toshiya [Dir en grey]
Deaths:
* 1993 – Brandon Lee
* 1932 – Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov [Linguist]
* 1977 – Nakamura Utaemon VI [Kabuki Actor]
Holidays/Observances:
# US Virgin Islands – Transfer Day
# Abdas of Susa [Saint Day in the Syrian Church.]
# Orchestra Day [...in Japan, anyway.]
TAG:
dilettantka,
umbrellaofdoom and
kuroe.
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths, 3 holidays, and tag 3 friends.
Events:
* 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade. [The beginning of the end of Sakoku.]
* 1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years. [Hehehehe, you said 'sex'....heheheheh]
* 1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit). [An extra one because I feel so bad about including the next one. Also SPACE.]
* 1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE, takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
Births:
* 1596 – René Descartes
* 1932 – Ooshima Nagisa [Director responsible for Gohatto]
* 1977 – Toshiya [Dir en grey]
Deaths:
* 1993 – Brandon Lee
* 1932 – Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov [Linguist]
* 1977 – Nakamura Utaemon VI [Kabuki Actor]
Holidays/Observances:
# US Virgin Islands – Transfer Day
# Abdas of Susa [Saint Day in the Syrian Church.]
# Orchestra Day [...in Japan, anyway.]
TAG:

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