Birthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3
births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Events
529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
1788 - American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
and last, but not least
1933 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
Births
1928 - James Garner, American actor
1935 - Bobby Bare, American musician
1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
Deaths
1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (Godzilla) (b. 1910)
2007 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
Holiday
World Health Day - Celebrated by the 191 member countries of the World Health Organization
births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Events
529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
1788 - American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
and last, but not least
1933 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
Births
1928 - James Garner, American actor
1935 - Bobby Bare, American musician
1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
Deaths
1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (Godzilla) (b. 1910)
2007 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
Holiday
World Health Day - Celebrated by the 191 member countries of the World Health Organization