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fun with birthdates
Apr. 7th, 2006 04:30 amI'm inexplicably taken with this idea: Put your birthdate (Month Day, no year) into Wikipedia and see what you get. Selected events follow.
3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga- Lord Krishna leaves his mortal coil.
1856 - The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
1930 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.
1953 - The first 3D film, Bwana Devil, opens.
1972 - The California Supreme Court invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison.
2005 - The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.
3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga- Lord Krishna leaves his mortal coil.
1856 - The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
1930 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.
1953 - The first 3D film, Bwana Devil, opens.
1972 - The California Supreme Court invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison.
2005 - The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.
