Meme, And A Quick Poll

This was taken from a few people on my friends list:

Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date. Then pick 5 events 3 births, and 1 holiday that occurred on your birthday.

August 17th.

Events
1. 1807 - Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
2. 1908 - Projection in Paris of the very first cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl.
3. 1945 - Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published by Fredric Warburg
4. 1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal—Bill Clinton admits to it. (this was the day I started my senior year of high school, too)
5. 2008 - American swimmer Michael Phelps wins eighth gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, surpassing Mark Spitz for the most gold medals in a single olympics.

Births
1786 - Davy Crockett
1893 - Mae West, American actress
1990 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress

Holiday
Saint Hyacinth of Poland

In other news, I’m in the middle of working on an application (which I’ll wait until after Friday--the day of my next endoscopy--to send in) for Illyana Rasputin, for an X-Men related RPG. I’m just having some trouble coming up with non-overused blondes (who aren’t too old or too young to work as a 16 1/2 year old--I briefly considered Saoirse Ronan, but she seems too young) that would work for the character. If anyone happens to have any ideas, just put them in the following poll.

[Poll #1244175]

Meme, And A Quick Poll

This was taken from a few people on my friends list:

Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date. Then pick 5 events 3 births, and 1 holiday that occurred on your birthday.

August 17th.

Events
1. 1807 - Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
2. 1908 - Projection in Paris of the very first cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl.
3. 1945 - Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published by Fredric Warburg
4. 1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal—Bill Clinton admits to it. (this was the day I started my senior year of high school, too)
5. 2008 - American swimmer Michael Phelps wins eighth gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, surpassing Mark Spitz for the most gold medals in a single olympics.

Births
1786 - Davy Crockett
1893 - Mae West, American actress
1990 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress

Holiday
Saint Hyacinth of Poland

In other news, I’m in the middle of working on an application (which I’ll wait until after Friday--the day of my next endoscopy--to send in) for Illyana Rasputin, for an X-Men related RPG. I’m just having some trouble coming up with non-overused blondes (who aren’t too old or too young to work as a 16 1/2 year old--I briefly considered Saoirse Ronan, but she seems too young) that would work for the character. If anyone happens to have any ideas, just put them in the following poll.

[Poll #1244175]