A blog friend of mine (who will remain anonymous unless you click on the link!) 
doesn't like the fact that he has another birthday looming. So I thought I might make the idea of birthdays more appealling by doing the following meme.
Here goes - this was copied off Subs who nicked it from Purple Dragon who borrowed it etc .
The rules are "google" just the day and month of your birth, go into the Wikipedia entry for that date and then choose four events, three births, two deaths, and one holiday...
Here's mine:
EVENTS
1431- Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon
1496- Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt
1999 - The Mars Polar Lander was launched
BIRTHS
1733- Sir Richard Arkwright English industrialist and inventor
1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer
1942 - John Thaw, British actor
DEATHS
1795- Josiah Wedgwood, English potter
1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier
HOLIDAY
Festival in honour of Pax (Roman Empire)
