An update for you all
Apr. 7th, 2006 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litheraMy grandmother is responding to medicine and is recovering. Things are looking but thoughts and prayers are still welcome. She doesn't want them to do surgery and I don't blame them. Surgery isn't really that great when you're in good health. Thank you for your support and offers of help. I really, really appreciate them.
And I did the looking up of my birthday on Wiki but the results are sort of ... All over the place. There are some good things but it generally made me sad. Here is a sample:
Born:
1911 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1948 - Margaret Weis, American author
1961 - Todd McFarlane, Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur
1963 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
Died:
37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
1945 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
1975 - T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)
Things of note:
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers -- men, women, and children -- are killed by American troops.
1988- Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing thousands of people.
2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.
2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
St. Urho's Day - the fictional patron saint of Finnish immigrants to the US, created by Richard Mattson in 1956
The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome
And I did the looking up of my birthday on Wiki but the results are sort of ... All over the place. There are some good things but it generally made me sad. Here is a sample:
Born:
1911 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1948 - Margaret Weis, American author
1961 - Todd McFarlane, Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur
1963 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
Died:
37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
1945 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
1975 - T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)
Things of note:
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers -- men, women, and children -- are killed by American troops.
1988- Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing thousands of people.
2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.
2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
St. Urho's Day - the fictional patron saint of Finnish immigrants to the US, created by Richard Mattson in 1956
The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome
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Date: 2006-04-07 05:58 pm (UTC)1204 - Constantinople is sacked by warriors of the Fourth Crusade.
1606 - The Union Jack is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
1633 - The formal interrogation by the Inquisition of Galileo Galilei begins.
1776 - North Carolina's Provincial Congress authorized its delegates to the Second Continental Congress to vote for independence by issuing the Halifax Resolves.
1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
and
BIRTHS
599 BC - Mahavira, Indian founder of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
812 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Arabian Shia Imam (d. 835)
1484 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
1500 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574)
1526 - Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)
1550 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)
1916 - Beverly Cleary, American writer
1922 - Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
1923 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
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Date: 2006-04-07 05:59 pm (UTC)Kill it with fire.
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Date: 2006-04-07 06:44 pm (UTC)