Birthday meme

[selenay]

Sheeplike, I follow the world into memery. Although in my defence I rarely do this and I actually found this one interesting :-)

From alphekka_alpha

Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.

Events

• 1499 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.


• 1984 - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie throws a game-winning 48-yard Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to defeat the University of Miami Hurricanes 45-41. It is one of the most famous plays in American college football history. (Seemed appropriate to Atlantis fans...)


• 1963 - The first episode of the science fiction television series Doctor Who debuts on the BBC.

As a huge Doctor Who fan, that last one has always been a particular favourite :-)

Births

• 912 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)


• Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)

According to family legend (and apparently backed up with a historian's research), I am directly descended from Henry the Fowler, father of Otto although it was through one of his other sons. So this is rather a cool connection :-)

Deaths

• Roald Dahl, British author (b. 1916)

So November 23 is a rather interesting day all around :-) Proper post to follow shortly...

Comments

[paranoidangel]

As a huge Doctor Who fan, that last one has always been a particular favourite :-)

Now that is cool.

[selenay]

*g* I've always thought so!