Shamus stumbled upon an interesting meme (at Tim Worstall’s blog) relying upon Wikipedia’s ridiculously comprehensive date pages:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your blog, including the year.
Like Shamus, I won’t limit myself to the numbers above and will instead just list some things I think are interesting about September 13…
Facts
- 1503 – Michelangelo begins work on his David.
- 1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that will later be named after him – the Hudson River.
- 1922 – The temperature (in the shade) at Al ‘Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 136.4 �F (58 �C).
Births
- 1860 – John J. Pershing, American general (d. 1948)
- 1874 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born composer (d. 1951)
- 1916 – Roald Dahl, Welsh writer (d. 1990)
- 1977 – Fiona Apple, American singer
Deaths
- 1321 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)
- 1996 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (b. 1971)