Ann tagged me with a birthday meme.
And as much as I abhor tags, she’s so nice I decided to play.
But remember—you asked for it!

The rules are: You go to http://www.wikipedia.org and type in your birthdate. Then you write down 3 events, 2 births, and 1 holiday.

APRIL 15

Events:
1632 – Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War in The Battle of Rain. (couldn’t resist this one, lol). :mrgreen:

1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth.

1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, causing the deaths of about 1,503 people.

1943 – An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
(noticing a pattern here??) :shock:

1997 – Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.
(ok, going to make myself stop now…you get the idea…)

BIRTHS
1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic polymath (d. 1519).
(ahem…cough, cough…)

1843 – Henry James, American author (d. 1916).

(and one more, for good measure…)
1894 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)

HOLIDAY
Hawai’i – Father Damien Day — celebrated annually.

I won’t make any official tags—but if you wanna give it a shot, go for it! :grin: