Saturday, April 22, 2006

April 18th

Great idea from Kristen! Look up your birthday on wikipedia.
Hmm my birthday seems to be the day for insane people and massacres.
3 events from April 18th through history:
1912 - The RMS Carpathia arrives in New York Harbor with the 706 survivors of the Titanic disaster.
1946 - The League of Nations is dissolved.
1958 - A U.S. federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum
2 interesting births
1946 - Hayley Mills, English actress
2006 - Suri Cruise, daughter of American actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
1 interesting death
1955 - Albert Einstein, German-born Jewish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) (To make way for me 10 years later obviously! This world ain't big enough for the both of us!)

Got me hooked now, here’s Dieter’s:
23rd September
3 events
1875 - William Bonney ("Billy the Kid") is arrested for the first time. (Another badly behaved Peter Pan!)
1941 - The first gas experiments are conducted at Auschwitz (appropriate since he’s well known for his own gas “experiments”)
1980 - Bob Marley's last concert (very apt for a music man)
2 interesting births
63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14) (Hence the dictatorial tendencies?)
1930 - Ray Charles, American musician and singer (d. 2004) (Great man of music)
1 interesting death
1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (b. 1856) (Well I never!)

1 comment:

Absoblogginlutely! said...

lol on Dieters gas experiments!