July 24 is hardly a red-letter day, mostly distinguished, it seems, by war crimes and travesties of justice. However Macchu Picchu was rediscoved in 1911, Apollo 11 got home safely in 1969, and it's the Feast Day of St Christina the Astonishing!
I share my birthday with Wonder Woman and Amelia Earhert -- notable deaths this day include epidemiologist Richard Doll research pioneer into the links between smoking and health problems, and tragic Japanese short story writer Ryunosuke_Akutagawa, whose work you may have seen filmed as Rashōmon.
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I share my birthday with Wonder Woman and Amelia Earhert -- notable deaths this day include epidemiologist Richard Doll research pioneer into the links between smoking and health problems, and tragic Japanese short story writer Ryunosuke_Akutagawa, whose work you may have seen filmed as Rashōmon.
Your birthday (no year): three facts, two births, two deaths. Go play!
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And I'm pretty sure Peter Sellars died on 24th. I must get extra points for him dying in the same year I was born as well.
1820 - The tomato is publicly proven safe
1971 - Medicinal cannabis banned
I share my birthdate with Gwyneth Paltrow and Confucius.
Notable deaths - Louis Pasteur in 1895, and Harpo Marx in 1964.
World premiere of Beethoven's 9th in 1824. Russia and Bulgaria celebrate Radio Day. And Willy Brandt resigned the day I was born. Coincidence?
I share my birthday with a host of notables including Tchaikovsky and Archibald MacLeish who wrote J.B. and deaths on the same date include Holy Roman Emperor Otto I and alleged Mozart-murderer Antonio Salieri.
Other notable 22 January birthdays are Lord Byron, Strindberg, Sam Cooke, Rosa Ponselle and (Yayyyyy!) Wicked Wazir Conrad Veidt...'In the morning, zey die the death of a thousand cuts.'
On the day the Swiss Guards were founded and the Diet of Worms opened.
The Gestapo was established.
Guernica was bombed.
Chernobyl melted down.
History is trying to tell me something. Something bad.
On the plus side:
David Hume and Giorgio Moroder were born. Also Wittgenstein. Can I have three? Two philosophers and an electronic composer seems about right.
On the minus side:
Self taught mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan and Hubert Selby Jr, who wrote "Last Exit to Brooklyn", died.