Furinalia

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Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts some events that catch your eye, two births, one death, and some interesting festivals in your journal. (<---Edited.)

Events:

306 - Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1853 - Joaquin Murietta, famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
1908 - Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG) and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1920 - Telecommunications: first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast.
1965 - Newport Folk Festival: Bob Dylan goes electric.
1976 - The first performance of the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach
1984 - Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1990 - Comedian Roseanne Barr grabs her crotch and spits on the ground when performing the " Star-Spangled Banner" at a San Diego Padres baseball game.
1999 - Lance Armstrong wins first Tour de France.
2004 - Lance Armstrong makes history, winning his 6th consecutive Tour de France.

Births:

1562 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (d. 1611)
1978 - Louise Brown, first test tube baby

Deaths:

1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)

Festivals:

Roman festivals - Furinalia (in honour of Furina, the goddess of robbers)
Virgin Islands - Hurricane Supplication Day
Inca - festival in honor of Ilyap'a*
Ebernoe Horn Fair, Sussex, England

*Illapa ("thunder and lightning"; aka Apu Illapu, Ilyap'a, Katoylla) was a very popular weather god. His holiday was on July 25. He was said to keep the Milky Way in a jug and use it to create rain.

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1576 - Eighty Years' War: In Belgium, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
1677 - The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary.
1842 - Abraham Lincoln, future US President, marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour became the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expanded to become Italy.
1861 - The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
1869 - The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published.
1884 - U.S. presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.

1899 - Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
1918 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.

1921 - Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi assassinated in Tokyo.
1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
1948 - T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1952 - U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
1955 - The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.
1956 - Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.

1966 - Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno and Po rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.
1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
1970 - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1979 - Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American).
1980 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.

1993 - Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.