April 12, 2006

all about me(me)

i was bored taking a break from my report (i was coming up with words at a rate of one a minute. bah!).

went to wikipedia and searched for events that happened on my birthdate (just the day, not the year) and these were what i found out (i'm just gonna highlight important ones cos there were so many events!):

• September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining.
• 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric the Great at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
• 1331 - the Battle of Plowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order took place.
• 1605 - The armies of Sweden are utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm
• 1854 - The steamship Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?" in Annalen der Physik. This paper revealed the relationship between energy and mass.
• 1928 - The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
• 1940 - The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlinby Germany, Japan and Italy.
• 1988 - The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded.
• 1995 - The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
• 1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leaderMohammad Najibullah.
• 1997- Communications are lost with the Mars Pathfinder for unknown reasons.
• 1998 - Google is first established
• 2002 - Timor Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.

there were also lotsa births, and deaths of important people (too many to list).
and i need to get back to work.
:o(

luv, tash 9:04 PM