Wings Over the Pyre

Current Mood: grumpy
Current Music: Eagles, The / Very Best Of (Disc 1), The / Hotel California

Lifted from Zach Bush, among others.

Go to wikipedia and enter your birthday. List three births, three deaths, three historical events, and three observances or holidays that fall on your birthday.

My Birthday: April 19

Births

• 1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
• 1946 - Tim Curry, British actor
• 1793 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)

Deaths

• 1993 - David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
• 1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
• 1751 - Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)

Events

• 2000 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131.
• 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
• 1529 - At the Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant movement.

Observances

• Easter Sunday 1908, 1981, 1987, 1992. In the Gregorian Calendar Easter Sunday falls on 19 April more often than on any other date.
• Bicycle Day
• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
  • Saint Emma
  • George of Antioch
  • Ursmar
  • Expeditus

Intriguing. I get the worst actor in Star Wars, Frankenfurter, and an Emperor. Darwin, Darwin's social executor (Koresh) and an Irishman who liked to fight so much he went to go kick ass for the Russians hang around me. Plus, lots of death and dismay, plus the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Oh, yeah, plus lots and lots of Easter, the day LSD was first dropped, and four saints.

I'm a conflux of events, a nexus.