wikipedia birthday meme

[ricardienne]

November 3:

1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1918 - Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the World War I Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
1970 - Salvador Allende is inaugurated as president of Chile.

I also have many U.S. elections on my birthday. Sadly, the last one was 1 day too early. Not that it would have mattered anyway.

Births:
39 - Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
1500 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (d. 1571)
1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist (d. 1942)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna Romanova (d. 1918)

Deaths:
361 - Constantius II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)
1428 - Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle (at the siege of Orleans, if you care to know) (b. 1388)
1926 - Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)

Comments

[silviarambles]

You were born on my name day! And apparently Benvenuto Cellini was born twice, because I put that date into my name and I'm born on November 1st...

[silviarambles]

*ahem* I meant to write "I put that date into my meme"... *headdesk*

[thynk2much.livejournal.com]

The LM Montgomery and Annie Oakley ones make me SO HAPPY. :D

[ricardienne.livejournal.com]

LM Montomgery and I even share first two initials. And middle names. My parents really knew what they were doing, I suppose. :)