Birthday Meme

I’ve been tagged by Indolent Server for the Birthday Meme. It goes like this:

1: Go to wikipedia
2: Enter your birth month and day, but not year in the search box
3: List three events that happened on your birthday
4: List two important birthdays and one death
5: List one holiday or observance

Hmmm. My first meme tagging. I s’pose that means I should try to make this a good one.

Three events:

1. 1814 – Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner.
2. 1944 – United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu. (Given that my grandfather was in Guadalcanal around this time, these things have a special significance to me.)
3. 1964 – The opening of the third period of the Second Vatican Council.
4. 1965 – The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council. (Okay, so I cheated.)

Two birthdays:

1. 1849 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
2. 1936 – Walter Koenig, American actor (I want to know anyone over the age of 16 who doesn’t know who he is.)

One death:

1. 258 – Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (Hmmm. That means his birthday into heaven is my birthday into the world. Perhaps I should learn more about him.)
2. (Extra credit) 891 – Pope Stephen V
3. (More extra credit) 1523 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)

One celebration or holiday:

1. Roman Catholic Church – Triumph of the Cross (compare May 3, Finding of the Holy Cross).

I hereby tag … hmmm … Curt Jester, Dyspeptic Mutterings, and Dappled Things.