Another nice way to waste some time.

Saw this on another blog, and followed the instructions ... MEME thinggy

Anyone reading this, consider yourself tagged!

Firstly the instructions:

1. Open up wikipedia
2. In the search box, type in your MONTH and DATE of birth. (not your year)
3. List three events that happened on your birthday
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death
5. Post it

So here goes, JULY 18

The Events:

1. 390 BC - Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. (Did they have the magic potion ?)
2. 1942 - The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.
3. 1969 - Apollo 11 makes preparations for landing on the Moon.


The Births:
1. 1981 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize
2. 1950 - Sir Richard Branson, British Entrepreneur

2 things that i notice.
a. Mandela, birthday 18-7-18 , me 18-7-81. Will i ever rise to his standards?
b. Another couple of b'days 1982, Priyanka Chopra and 1967, Vin Diesel the beauty and the beast?

The Deaths:
1. 1918 - several members of the Romanov family, executed by the Bolsheviks
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, (b. 1864)
Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, (b. 1886)
Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, (b. 1891)
Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia, (b. 1894).
Vladimir Paley, (b. 1897)

I detest the word Bolsheviks. *shiver*

And now that u have read this, you have been tagged. Please do the same on your blog, and comment a link.

RAVi