So the point of this whole thing is trivial enough that I went ahead and did it: Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths and 3 holidays.
December 29
Events
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3,500 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia without firing a shot.
Way to go Georgia, just roll over and take it. Bitches.
- 1890 – United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota people with four Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
120 years later we're still treating the natives like shit & using the treaties to wipe our national ass -- Progress, we no can has
- 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
Interesting tidbit in honor of all those linguistics courses I took.
Births
- 1800 – Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860)
A subtle reminder from the universe to check your tire inflation and wear pattern
- 1921 – Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (d. 2006)
Cue ironic chorus of "Nugget Man"
- 1967 – Andy Wachowski, American director
I still won't forgive him for the Matrix sequels. Filthy humans ruinsed a good thing.
Deaths (Excluding the "event" death)
- 1731 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)
- 1737 – Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
- 1891 – Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823)
Apparently not a good day to be a mathematician… Do I get any bonus points for a trifecta?
Holidays
Only 2 and nothing relevant: The 5th day of Christmas (but nobody cares aside from the song) and apparently St. Becket's day (patron saint of secular clergy, so I suppose that's appropriate with me being an ordained minister and all)
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