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Meme from ythrykythyr: raiding Wikipedia for three events, two births and a death on your birthday. On January 18:
1) Henry Morgan captures Panama in a feat of piratical brilliance and brutality (arr!)
2) The siege of Leningrad is broken by Soviet forces.
3) Monica Lewinsky's dodgy laundry gets Republicans in a tizz in the States.
1) Thomas Sopwith, inventor of the Sopwith Camel, is born.
2) Kevin Costner flops from his mother's womb. I feel like I should apologise.
1) Rudyard Kipling, maythegodsblesshimandkeephimsafe.
1) Henry Morgan captures Panama in a feat of piratical brilliance and brutality (arr!)
2) The siege of Leningrad is broken by Soviet forces.
3) Monica Lewinsky's dodgy laundry gets Republicans in a tizz in the States.
1) Thomas Sopwith, inventor of the Sopwith Camel, is born.
2) Kevin Costner flops from his mother's womb. I feel like I should apologise.
1) Rudyard Kipling, maythegodsblesshimandkeephimsafe.
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Events:
1889 - Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
1897 - Bram Stoker's novel Dracula goes on sale in London.
1940 - Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk.
Births:
1907 - John Wayne. (Beat that for coolness.)
1913 - Peter Cushing (Or that!)
Deaths:
It seems nobody I have heard of died on my birthday. (The moral there is that I have heard of most of you. So if you want to be safe, you should come to my parties.) Instead I have picked someone that none of you have heard of too (probably).
This chap:
1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Ahmadi sect. Who had a groovy name and was a muslim heretic to boot.