the wikipedia meme

[fox]

1.  Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at wikipedia.org.

2.  List three interesting events, two birthdays, and one death that happened on your birthday.

Yeah, I'm almost going to limit it to those numbers.

• 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.
  
• 1776 - American Revolution: Virginia convention instructs its delegates to propose a declaration of independence from Great Britain.
  
• 1918 - Civil War in Finland ends.  (did any of you know there was a civil war in Finland?)
  
• 2004 - The largest known prime number at the time of its discovery, 2^24036583 − 1, is found by Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative effort.
  
  
• 1909 - James Mason, English actor (d. 1984) (i.e. Eddie Izzard's Voice of God)
  
• 1937 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
  
  
• 1886 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
  
• 1971 - Sir Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and writer (b. 1900) (founder of my beloved Stratford Festival)
  
• 1986 - Theodore H. White, American writer (b. 1915)

Comments

[datlowen.livejournal.com]

>(did any of you know there was a civil war in Finland?)

I imagine it was an extension of their war of independence from Russia, which, as you know, was busy collapsing.

>Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative

Heh. Gimps.