Wednesday, March 28, 2007

What happened on my birthday?

A quick little thing.

** Find your birthday from Wikipedia. Find three events, three births and three deaths that happened, plus all the holidays held that day. **

5th of December

Events
1484- Pope Innocent VII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the severest witch hunts in European history.
1492 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola.
1951- The first issue of Aku Ankka (Donald Duck) -magazine comes out in Finland. :P

Births
1890- Fritz Lang
1901- Walt Disney
1976- Amy Acker
(I'm so cool.)

Deaths
1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1870- Alexandre Dumas (senior)
1926- Claude Monet
(These guys I like keep dying?)

Holidays
Roman festivals - Faunalia celebrated in honor of Faunus
Thailand - The King's Birthday, National Day, Father's Day
Netherlands - Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas' Eve)
UN - the International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
Austria - Krampus (in Schladming over 1200 "Krampus" gather from all over Austria wearing goat-hair costumes and carved masks, carrying bundles of sticks used as switches, and swinging cowbells to warn of their approach - I think the Finnish equivalent is nuutipukki)
Saint Sabas (the feast day of Sabbas the Sanctified)

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