Saturday, April 18, 2009

time, where did you go?

another year has sped by, and it's once again the 18th of april. this may come as a shock to some of you, but me being born 21 years ago was not the only important thing to happen on april 18 (which by the way is the 108th day of the year, 109th if it's a leap year).

here are some cool things in history that happened on my birthday:

1025 – BolesÅ‚aw Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
1783 – Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1902 – Quetzaltenango, second largest city of Guatemala, destroyed by Earthquake.
1906 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroys much of San Francisco, California.
1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first Crossword puzzle book.
1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya bombed.
1954 – Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President.
1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
1988 - Sarah Kabli was born.
1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.

so yeah, a lot of natural disasters and deaths and stuff, but the first crossword puzzle! awesome.

Some famous people born on my birthday: America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Conan O'Brien, Eric McCormack (Will from Will & Grace), Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch).

*Time - Chantal Kreviazuk

2 comments:

  1. haha i love this. i was all serious reading... seized power, suicide bomber, largest naval battle. then sarah is born. lol

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  2. not the first crossword....the first crossword book... BIIIIG difference

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