Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List events that happened on your birthday. List some important birthdays and some interesting deaths. Post this on your blog.
(This is from Juvenilia's LJ. I had trouble narrowing things down. A lot happened on my birthday - which I suppose is to be expected.)
October 1
Events:
331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Guagamela
1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly
1795 - Belgium is conquered by France
1811 - The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, LA
1843 - the news tabloid The News of the World begins publication in London
1847 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AGG & Halske
1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards
1890 - Yosemite National Park is established by the US Congress
1891 - Stanford University opens it doors
1903 - Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series
1905 - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
(It's gorgeous)
1908 - Ford introduces the Model T car.
1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (aka "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1936 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain
1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1961 - Baseball: Roger Maris sets new record for most home runs in a single season with 61, surpassing Babe Ruth's previous mark of 60.
1964 - The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 - Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida, United States.
1975 - The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu. Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
1982 - EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World in Florida, United States.
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet.
2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
Births:
1671 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician
1685 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
1730 - Richard Stockton, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence
1881 - Willian Boeing, American engineer
1887 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor
1896 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first prime minister of Pakistan
1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukranian pianist
1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw
1914 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian, writer, Librarian of Congress
1924 - James Earl Carter Jr. 39th US President
1924 - William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
1927 - Tom Bosley, American actor
1928 - George Peppard, American actor
1930 - Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor
1932 - Albert Collins, blue guitarist
1935 - Julie Andrews, British actress
1950 - Randy Quaid, American actor
1963 - Mark McGwire, Baseball player
1976 - Dora Venter, Hungarian porn star
Deaths:
1040 - Alan III, Duke of Brittany (poisoned)
1499 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher
1574 - Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Deen, Dutch painter
1985 - E.B. White, American Author
2002 - Walter Annenberg, Publisher and philathropist
Holidays:
Feast day of St. Therese de Lisieux
People's Republic of China - National Day Republic of Cyprus - Independence Day
Nigeria - Independence Day
Tuvalu - Independence Day
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