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I was born on December 14th, 1977.
The instructions:
- Go to Wikipedia.
- In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
- List three events that happened on your birthday.
- List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
- One holiday or observance (if any).
Events
- 1702 - The 47 Ronin (master less samurai), under the command of Ôishi Kuranosuke, avenged the death of their master, Asano Takumi no kami Naganori, by beheading Kira Kozukenosuke Yoshinaka. Later the 46 surviving ronin would commit ritual suicide, seppuku (disembowelment), and would later achieve legendary status as the embodiments of the ideals of the samurai.
- 1977 - Releasing of Saturday Night Fever film. (w00t!)
- 1999 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, announces his retirement.
- 1546 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (d. 1601. Did you know that this famous astornomer had his own island kingdom and a pet dwarf named Jepp?)
- 1946 - Patty Duke, American actress
- 1788 - King Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
- R.C. Saints - Memorial of Saint John of the Cross
