A bit of light relief from all over the blogosphere, but first seen at Atypical Homeschool.  Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday month and day only.  List 3 events that occurred that day, 2 birthdays, 1 death and a holiday or observance (if there is one!).

 Me first (31 Jan):

Events (mostly pretty grim ones so hard to choose which to post here!)

1. 1606: Guy Fawkes executed for his part in the Gunpowder plot
2. 1747 (you’ll laugh at this one Georgina!): First Veneral Diseases clinic opened at London Lock Hospital
3. 1990 (you’ll like this one as well, George!): First Russian McDonalds opened in Moscow

Birthdays

1. 1981 - Justin Trousersnake…sorry…Timberlake
2. 1956 - Johnny Rotten!

Death (Apart from Guy Fawkes and the other conspirators as mentioned above!)

1. 1956 - A.A.Milne

Holiday/Observance

1. Catholic Feast Day of St. John Bosco

DH (8 March):

Events

1. 1817 - New York Stock Exchange founded
2. 1911 - International Women’s Day celebrated for the first time
3. 1978 - The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

Births

1. 1943 - Lynn Redgrave
2. 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jnr

Death

1. 1702 - William III of England

Holiday/Observance

1. Mothers’ Day in Eastern Europe

I won’t do the girls or it will take me all night!  Might do them some other time