It's a Meme Thing

I wandered over to Red Shoe Ramblings this morning to check out what Deb R has been up to. She has this meme up. What you do is go to Wikipedia, type just the month and day of your birthday in the search engine on the site and all sorts of things that have happened over time on that day will come up. Then you list 3 events, 3 birthdays, and 3 deaths that occured on that day. Really cool to find all the things that have happened on the day of your birth.. grin Here's what I found:

EVENTS

• 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe. (That's a scary thought!)
• 1869 - Woman's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• 1964 - The Smothers Brothers give their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City (Loved them! They were way ahead of their time.)

BIRTHDAYS

• 1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
• 1918 - Eddy Arnold, American singer
• 1930 - Jasper Johns, American painter

DEATHS

• 1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)
• 1609 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557) (Wonder if he's related to Jim Croce...?)
• 1886 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)