Significant Events on the day of my Birth (via Wikipedia)

I gleaned this idea from an old blog post on Birds Etcetera.

Events:

  • 1653 – New York City (at the time New Amsterdam) founded
  • 1790 – First convening of the US Supreme Court
  • 1933 – Hitler dissolves the German Parliament
  • 1990 – The end of Apartheid in South Africa

Births:

  • James Joyce – 1882
  • Howard Johnson – 1897 (yes that Howard Johnson)
  • Ayn Rand – 1905

Deaths:

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – 1594
  • Bertrand Russell – 1970
  • Sid Vicious – 1979
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