Okay then, it’s a while since I’ve memed, so now I’m copying Stephen Lang’s Wiki Meme (which he in turn copied off elsewhere etc etc). Basically, I have to list 3 events, 2 birthdays, one death and a holiday that occurred on my birthday. Stephen tells us when his birthday is, so I will too. Stephen’s birthday is on June 16th.

Mine? Tcch. Why not look up the events yourself if you really want to know…

Events

1904 — British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law.

1975 — Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball’s first African American manager.

2005 — Funeral of Pope John Paul II

Birthdays

appx 568 BC — Buddha (only in Japan, apparently)

1938 — Kofi Annan, Ghanian United Nations Secretary General

Death

1492 — Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449)

Holiday or observance

Feast day for Saint Julie Billiart of Namur (died 1816) (who was born in Picardy!)