Your Birthday

[Cobalt]

Since my birthday's a few days away now, I thought it'd be fun to see what interesting things happened on that day throughout history.


(All found at Wikipedia)
5/26: Events

1805 - Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano gothic cathedral in Milan.
1864 - Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1889 - Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
1896 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
1928 - The first motion picture is projected publicly in Athens, Greece..
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1970 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1992 - Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. was kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California for $650,000 and is held hostage in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later.


Births:
1478 - Pope Clement VII
1907 - John Wayne, American actor
1926 - Miles Davis, American musician
1939 - Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster
1955 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef (Iron Chef! Awesome!)
1971 - Matt Stone, American television producer


Those are just a few tidbits I found interesting. What about yours?

[cmperry]

Oh sry! Happy Early Birthday !!!!

[Cobalt]

As of 4 AM, you're still 4 days early =)

I celebrate in advance, though!

[LanceS]

Thanks for the idea......while sitting in front of my computer, it's good to have other ideas of what to search for. Not that much really happened on my birthday in history, but 10 minutes of not thinking about P is always helpful.

Walt Disney was born on my birthday (or I should say I was born on his birthday) in 1901.

Thanks again.

[Cobalt]

The alternative internet activity angle never crossed my mind. I'm glad I could help, though!

[stingerD39]

Happy Birthday, Cobalt!!!!

[Cobalt]

Thank you, thank you!

[stingerD39]

Oh, and if you need something to do on the computer, check the mahjongg board. I'm right behind you! Maybe you can try a little practice (Smile)!

[Cobalt]

Mahjongg? Did I play mahjongg? I'm not positive I even know how to play mahjongg. Speaking of birthdays, I happened to be born forty miles north of Hickory, in North Wilkesboro.

[stingerD39]

Cool. I just moved here in January to start school. So far so good.

It wasn't you...it was HalfPint who's topping me on the mahjongg board.