In light of my birthday being tomorrow, I went to wikipedia and looked up Oct. 13th to see what kinds of things have happened on Oct. 13th. Here are a few:
1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. ~how weird is that?
1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier ~cool!!!
1892 - Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3), the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13-14
1917 - The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 persons in the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal. ~anyone know what the "Miracle of the Sun" is?
1943 - World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
1944 - World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is seized by the Red Army
1946 - France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
Births:
1713 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter
1900 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter
1941 - Paul Simon, American singer and musician
1972 - Summer Sanders, American swimmer
1988 - Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer~same b-day and year as me, cool!
Deaths:
54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor
1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer
1905 - Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted
1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon
1988 - Mike Venezia, jockey~again, my birth year
Holiday kinda stuff:
Roman festivals - Fontanalia: festival dedicated to Fontus
RC Saints - translation (1163) of Saint Edward the Confessor; memorial of Saint Gerald of Aurillac optional feast of Our Lady of Fatima
French Republican Calendar - Pêche (Peach) Day, twenty-second day in the Month of Vendémiaire
 LovemelikeyoudidBBY · Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 05:37pm · 0 Comments |
