I'm bored and hungry and cranky.

[hopefulnebula]

So it's a perfect time for a meme. I got this one from romulantbonz.

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

March 30:

Events:

240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1856 - The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1867 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.

Births:

1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
1976 - Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player
1979 - Norah Jones, American singer and pianist

Deaths:

2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)

Holiday:

Roman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus.

Comments

[mbif.livejournal.com]

WOOHOO, go Seward's Folly! *cheers for her state*

[hopefulnebula]

(Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #33: It never hurts to suck up to the boss.)