In which the Meridian cultivates his talent for idleness via posting on another meme

I've seen this meme floating about the 'sphere and have had a hankering to post something with it, but it's only this morning, as I'm a) waiting for the caffeine to kick in and b) delaying the i) paying of bills and ii) doing of laundry, that I'm thinking, Hey--what about that cool meme? You could post about that!

I saw this most recently at Debra's blog, Find the Beauty . . ., which I learned just this morning has a sidebar link(!) to good old Blog Meridian. I'll put aside for now a considered exploration of the inevitable aesthetic question her linking here raises--specifically, just what "beauty" she found here worthy of a sidebar link(!) to this blog--and just thank her and ask you to go visit her place and get on with the meme-ing:

Instructions:
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three important events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two interesting birthdays and one interesting death.
5. List one holiday or observance (if none, make one up).

My birthday is April 25th. Let's do a bit of trivia-mining, shall we?

This isn't part of the meme, but it's a Fun Fact I've known ever since I could really care about such things: April 25th is the last possible date that Easter can fall on.

Three important events:
1) 1846 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War
2) 1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain
[One lesson here would seem to be that the leaders of Spanish-speaking nations should become especially attuned to bellicose rhetoric from my nation come springtime]
3) 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA

Two interesting birthdates:
Some intriguing people named here that I already knew about (Cromwell, Al Pacino, Ella Fitzgerald); I'll define "interesting" here as "people whom I admire but whom I didn't know before doing this that I shared a birthday with them"
1) 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
2) 1933 - Jerry Leiber (of Leiber and Stoller), American composer

One interesting death:
1) 1995 - Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)

Holiday/Observance:
ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand). (Equivalant to the U.S.'s Memorial Day)

Hmm . . . I'm now richer in knowledge . . . time now to expend some monetary riches.

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