Birthdate meme

[nolawitch58]

1. Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.
2. List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

Events:

1783 - The Continental Army is disbanded.
1868 - U.S. presidential election: Republican Ulysses S. Grant is elected to the first of his two terms in a victory over Democrat Horatio Seymour.
1896 - U.S. presidential election: Republican William McKinley is elected over Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
1908 - U.S. presidential election: Republican William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan, Democratic candidate in his third and final nomination.
1913 - The USA introduces an income tax.
1936 - U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon.
1954 - The first in the Godzilla series of films is released in Japan.
1957 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit: a dog named Laika.
1964 - U.S. presidential election, 1964: Incumbent US President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, Sr with over 60 percent of the popular vote.
1971 - The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published.
1973 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury, on March 29, 1974 becoming the first space probe to reach that planet.
1992 - U.S. presidential election: Democratic challenger Bill Clinton defeats incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot.
1994 - Red Hat Linux 1.0 is released.

I couldn't limit myself to three since there were so many elections and other quirky happenings.

Births:

1918 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1933 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
1933 - Michael Dukakis, American politician
1934 - John Barry, English composer
1946 - Tom Savini, American actor, filmmaker, and makeup artist
1948 - Lulu (singer), British actress and singer
1952 - Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedienne
1953 - Dennis Miller, American comedian
1954 - Adam Ant, English singer
1957 - Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor

Deaths:

1926 - Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)
1933 - Emile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
1954 - Henri Matisse, French artist (b. 1869)
1957 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (b. 1897)
1993 - Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (b. 1895)
1998 - Bob Kane, comic artist & Batman co creator (b. 1915)

All of those events or people are ones with which I feel an additional connection aside from a date. Except maybe Dennis Miller who lost his humor and mind when he went to the darkside with the wingnuts.

Comments

[mcnutcase.livejournal.com]

You like the damned woo-woo machine too then ;)

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Yes indeedy do! The theme music to one of my favorite TV shows features a theremin: "Dark Shadows". Of course, all the sci-fi flicks from bygone days from the sublime to the execrable also used the theremin's haunting otherworldly sound for their music and effects tracks.

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

you may have cooler events than I do, but Ozzy shares my birthday *gloat* :P

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

You're MUCH younger than Ozzy though.

[ozanbaba.livejournal.com]

actually Ozzy is older than everybody :))