Friday, April 07, 2006

History Is Bunk: A Meme

Keith R.A. DeCandido was doing this, and it looked interesting, so I tried it out myself.

Instructions: enter your birthdate into Wikipedia (without year), then post three events, two births and one death.

Date: June 4

Events:
1876 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
1917 - The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing and are covered live on television.

Births:
470 BC - Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. 399 BC)
1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820)

Death:
1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover and writer (b. 1725)

My birthday is also the feast days of the saints St Francis Caracciolo and Saint Petrock of Cornwall, as well as being International Innocent Child Abuse Victim Day. (Not to be flippant, but does that mean there's a separate day to commemorate Guilty child abuse victims?)

Edited April 8 at 9:01 PM: I'd forgotten to actually put the day in the first time. Brain, sieve, etc.

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