21 April 2006 - Unexpected and Damn Proud of It (original) (raw)
My Day is Special
Apr. 21st, 2006 | 11:09 pm
posted by: 
dysgr8mystake in 
a_great_mistake
So here we go. In this post, I'm inviting members of the community to look up their specific birthdays on Wikipedia and see what cool things happened their day. I was inspired by this because of 4/20, oddly enough, because I was getting sick of people acting like it was a national holiday and decided to look up what things really did happen on that day. So now I'll do my birthday, and I invite you guys to do yours.
My birthday; March 6.
As for the positives: Muhammed Ali was officially given that name on this day in 1964. Shaqille O'Neal was born on March 6. Alan Greenspan was also born on my birthday. Lou Costello was too! Elzabeth Barret Browning (a poet) was also born March 6. The painter Michaelangelo was born that day too! Awesome. This year it was also Casmir Polaski day on my birthday. ^^ Purim begins on March 6, and also it is Ghana's National Independence Day.
Negative things:
The ruling on the Dred Scott v. Sanford case was handed down this day in 1857, effectively establishing the fact that the Supreme Court considered "negroes" to be property. The Battle of the Alamo ended this day in 1838. The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins this day in 1951. In 1970 Charles Manson released an album to help finance his defense on March 6. A Picasso painting was stolen in 1997. Dana Reeve died on my birthday this year (Christopher Reeve's widow). Georgia O'Keefe died ON MY BIRTHDAY (March 6, 1986). Ayn Rand died on March 6 in 1982. John Phillip Sousa also died on March 6. Davy Crockett died on March 6 in 1836. So did Louisa May Alcott (1888). And the worst thing of all: On my birthday in 2006, the South Dakota governor signed a bill into legislation banning abortions in SD, going against the Constitution, the will of the people, and the laws of America.
Although Davy Crockett is pretty awesome.
Your turn!