Birthday Meme

Birthday Meme
Hey look, internets! A meme! (I haven't done one of these in a long while, so...)

Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.

January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days remaining until the end of the year (340 in leap years).

EVENTS
1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
1531 - Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
1978 - The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio - Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).

BIRTHS
1925 - Paul Newman, American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner (d. 2008)
1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian
1968 - Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor

DEATHS
1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)

HOLIDAY
Roman Empire - third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra

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