I read this meme over at All The Pretty Words and at vanlal’s lj and decided to do it too. If nothing else, at least I’ll learn something! 😀
The Instructions:
- Go to Wikipedia.
- In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
- List three events that happened on your birthday.
- List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
- Post it.
My birthday is on the 16th of September
Events:
- 1597 – Yi Sun-sin leads 12 ships of the Korean fleet against an invasion by 133 Japanese ships. The Koreans sink 31 enemy ships and force a Japanese retreat.
- 1941 – Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupy Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- 1956 – Play-Doh is introduced to the world
Births:
- 1893 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1925 – B. B. King, American musician
Deaths:
- 1932 – Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
Anyone reading this, consider yourself tagged! (Oh and leave a comment with a link to your post please?)