WIKI WIKI WIKI. July 29th.

[orange_crushed]

Wiki meme, stolen from thunderemerald. Enter your date of birth, then pick 4 events, 3 births, two deaths, and one holiday.


EVENTS:
1. 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
2. 1948 - Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad - after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London.
3. 1966 - Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York.
4. 1981 - Marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.

BIRTHS:
1. 1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
2. 1924 - Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
3. 1953 - Tim Gunn, American television personality

DEATHS:
1. 1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
2. 1974 - Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941)

HOLIDAY:
1. Roman Catholic Saint's Day: Saint Martha, host of Christ, sister of Lazarus, patron saint of cooks, domestic staff and dieticians.

Comments

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

1. Mama Cass for the win! (Except the dying part.)
4. Martha was Lazarus's sister? No shit. Totally didn't know that.

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

1. My mom loved Mama Cass so I listened to a lot of her stuff when I was little. Such a dreamy voice. And an excuse for my mom to always lecture me about chewing slowly (ILU MOM BUT THE HAM'S AN URBAN LEGEND, OKAY ?)

4. Yup, Mary and Martha were the sisters of Lazarus (and no, not that Mary. Or the other Mary. I guess it was like the Jessica of biblical times.) Imagine the parties that lady threw after her brother got back- they were probably totally bitchin'. Patron saint of cooks, indeed.

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Dreamy voice indeed. I really need more Mamas & Papas mp3s on my computer. Hmmm, must fix.

Considering RTD's fixation on biblical imagery, I wonder how much of Martha's character was influenced by THAT Martha? Hmmmm.

[seizard.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I share a birthday with Shakespeare & Shirley Temple.

Shakespeare also died on my birthday. Which means he died on his birthday. Which would kind of suck, but is kind of cool. He was exactly 70 years old.

[harwhon.livejournal.com]

So I may seem a bit scary and creepy and stuff- but I was checking through your posts to look for fic and stuff and then I came across this meme.

And then I noticed! We were born on the same day! (As are many people, I'm sure, but what are the odds of having someone on my flist, ey?)

I was going to do the meme, but you picked most of the good ones, already :)