Since I got tagged by CrankyCon, I am doing the following:
1) Go to Wikipedia.
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day, but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday.
4) List two important birthdays and one death.
5) One holiday or observance (if any).
Events:
44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1991 - Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
1998 - Titanic defeats Star Wars for the #1 place in the North American domestic box office, grossing $471 million. (Men vomit worldwide)
Births (apparently it was a very interesting day):
1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1940 - Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1955 - Dee Snider, American singer
1975 - Eva Longoria, American actress
Death:
1975 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)
Holiday/Observance:
In the Roman calendar, the Ides of March.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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