birthday meme
Apr. 7th, 2006 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaeclectic Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
(January 4)
871 - Battle of Reading - Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
1642 - English Civil War: King Charles I of England attacks Parliament.
1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts.
1643 - Isaac Newton, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1727)
1785 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
1066 - Edward the Confessor, pre-Norman conquest English king (b. ca. 1004) (disputed)
Also, BTW, the feast day of St Elizabeth Ann Seton. Who knew?
via eac, and also bulieb
(January 4)
871 - Battle of Reading - Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
1642 - English Civil War: King Charles I of England attacks Parliament.
1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts.
1643 - Isaac Newton, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1727)
1785 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
1066 - Edward the Confessor, pre-Norman conquest English king (b. ca. 1004) (disputed)
Also, BTW, the feast day of St Elizabeth Ann Seton. Who knew?
via eac, and also bulieb