So this is what my "late 20s" feels like. Not too much different, to be honest, except for an increasingly nagging feeling that I should be "settling down" and "growing up" - whatever that means. Some days I feel like that ad... "I don't know what a tracker mortgage is!"
But I digress.
I thought I'd take the opportunity to find out random things that happened on my birthday in past years, courtesy of the good folks at Wikipedia. Enjoy!
The Official Birthday Meme:
1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth day and month but not the year
3) List 10 events that happened on your birthday
4) List 5 important birthdays and one death
5) List important holidays or observances (if any)
Ten things that happened on my birthday:
42BC - Roman Republican Civil Wars - Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus' army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide.
1694 - American forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec
1812 - Claude Francois de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he was now the commandant of Paris. De Malet is executed on October 29.
1915 - Women's Suffrage - In New York City, 25-33,000 march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote
1917 - Lenin calls for the October Revolution
1929 - The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California
1946 - The UN General Assembly convened for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City
1958 - The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves later popularised in a Hanna Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time, in the story Le Flute a six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialised in the weekly comics magazine, Spirou.
1973 - A UN sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria
2001 - Apple releases the iPod
Five important birthdays and one death:
b.1698 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel (French Architect)
b.1940 - Pele (Brazilian Footballer)
b.1942 - Anita Roddick (founder of The Body Shop)
b.1954 - Ang Lee (Taiwanese-born director)
b.1959 - Sam Raimi (director) and "Weird Al" Yankovic (musical parodist)
d.1950 - Al Jolson (singer and musician)
d.1957 - Christian Dior (French fashion designer)
Holidays and Observances:
- Chulalongkorn Memorial Day in Thailand
- Day of the revolution in Republic of Macedonia
- Mole Day (not the animal, the chemistry term)
- National Day (revolution of 1956 and the proclamation of the Republic of Hungary in 1989) in Hungary
- RC Saints - Saint Giovanni da Capistrano, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Saint Anthony Marie Claret, Saint Ignatius of Constantinople
- French Republican Calendar - Celeri (Celery) Day, second day in the month of Brumaire
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1 comment:
Hey Chica - did you not get the memo? Once you hit 2-5, you get to age only once every 5 years :) That's my rule!!....so you're still in your mid-20's ;) --Krishna
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