calime: Smaug; text: Lurking worm (goddess of death)
[personal profile] calime
...and lemmings aren't supposed to read business manuals, and are allowed to indulge in gratuituos blind following of the others.
So, the Wikipedia meme.

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

May 24th

Events
1595 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1844 - The first electric telegram is sent by Samuel F. B. Morse, from Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".
1993 - Microsoft unveils Windows NT. What indeed?

Births
15 BC - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)
1819 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)

Deaths
1153 - King David I of Scotland (b. 1084)

If anyone is interested, the goddess meme gave me Morrigan.

Pretty good day.

Date: 2006-04-07 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sparklebutch.livejournal.com
September 27th:
1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1968 - The stage musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof's collapsing in July 1973.
1998 - Google is first established