Happy birthday and many happy returns @Mattia Mattia Roland Galliani and Falzaabi Alzaabi. Born on the same day, across the years, along with 70 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC) 1265 – Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan-China (d. 1307) 1608 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647) 1762 – Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (d. 1820) 1844 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900) 1858 – John L. Sullivan, American boxer (d. 1918) 1881 – P. G. Wodehouse, English author (d. 1975) 1906 – Hiram Fong, American politician (d. 2004) 1946 – Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Carpenters) 2005 – Prince Christian of Denmark October 15: Shemini Atzeret begins at sunset (Judaism, 2014) Edward Gibbon 1764 – English historian Edward Gibbon (pictured) observed friars singing Vespersat Capitoline Hill in Rome, inspiring him to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1864 – American Civil War: The Confederates captured Glasgow, Missouri, although it had little long-term benefit as Prices Missouri Expedition was defeated a week later. 1894 – Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French military, was wrongly arrested for treason. 1917 – Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari was executed by a firing squad for spying for Germany. 1954 – Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing a total of 176 people in both countries. You are inspired. You captured Glasgow. Dreyfus was not acting innocent. You dance exotically. Your eyes are Hazel. Lets party.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:06:35 +0000
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