Birthday Meme

Birthday Meme
Via Sinning Boldly

The Rules:
1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)

Three Events:
1. Saladin began his siege of Jerusalem in 1187
2. A Holocaust occurs in Letychiv, Ukraine. 3,000+ Jews murdered in two days. 1942.
3. President Bush delivers his “Freedom at War with Fear” speech to a joint session of congress in 2001.

Births:
1599 - Christian the Younger, German protestant military leader (d. 1623)
1878 - Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)

One Death:
2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)

“Holiday or observance”:
The seventh day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion begins.