Everybody's Doing It...

[lovetriangle]

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
For April 18th...

Facts:
1775 - Two lanterns were hung from the steeple of the Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts. Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons. Only Prescott finishes the ride.
1983 - A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.

Births:
1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
1580 - Thomas Middleton, English dramatist (d. 1627)

Death:
1955 - Albert Einstein, German-born Jewish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)

Comments

[gilded-garb.livejournal.com]

You share a birthday with Thomas Middleton AND Lucrezia Borgia? That completely rocks :o)

[love3angle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought so. :-) Also a dozen commedians and a smattering of eastern bloc composers and conductors.