Thursday Thirteen #6

Sorry Guys. Been sick. Still. I tell you what. This thing has zapped the life from me. I am starting to feel better, but it seems to have taken some of my creativity from me. So yesterday when I was reading Kookiejar's blog and I saw her History Quiz, I thought I would used it as a Thursday Thirteen! Save me from trying to think up a topic on my own! So here's what to do. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (without the year), then you are supposed to list 3 important events, 2 birthdays, a death and a holiday. I'm just going to round out the list to:
Thirteen Things that happened on my birthday of January 13:



1. 1112 Pope Honorius II grants a papal sanction to the miliary order known as the Knights Templar, delcaring them to be "an Army of God".


2. 1776 - The British raid Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay.


3. 1840 - The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island and 139 lives are lost.


4. 1964 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed Archbishop of Krakow, Poland.


5. 1968 - Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsum Prison live at Folsum State Prison.


6. 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr. American Minister and author was born.


7. 1926 - Michael Bond, British author was born. Bond was the creator of Paddinton Bear.


8. 1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress was born. (Big Seinfeld fan here. HAD to put this one in!)


9. 1966 - Patrick Dempsey (AKA Dr. McDreamy), American Actor was born.


10. 1977 - Orlando Bloom, British Actor was born. (I can't believe he's so YOUNG!)


11. 1926 - Wyatt Earp, American cowboy and lawman, died at the age of 80 in California. (Man...he survived Dodge City and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and died because of a urinary tract infection. Bummer.)


12. 1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey (Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson) died in Waverly, Minnesota of terminal cancer.


13. Feast of St. Hilarius of Poitiers (I'm Catholic and I've never even heard of this one!)




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