(Since it’s the weekend, I’m just going to skate and throw up another meme that’s going around.)

Go to Wikipedia. In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this on your blog.

September 6:

3 Events

1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1970 – Jimi Hendrix plays what turns out to be his last ever performance, at the badly controlled and rained out Love and Peace Festival, on the Isle Of Fehmarn, Germany.

2 Birthdays

1666 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
1757 – Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)

A death

1649 – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)