Births, deaths, and fun stuff for the living

01 November:

Events:
1512: Sistine Chapel ceiling displayed to the public
1604: Shakespeare's Othello performed at Whitehall
1611: The Tempest ditto
1848: First medical school for women opened in Boston
1884: GAA founded in Tipperary
1974: Hello Kitty's birthday (Fiction! Fiction!)
1993: Maastricht Treaty takes effect
1998: European court of Human Rights is instituted

Births:
1942: Larry Flynt
1962: Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
1963: Rick Allen (Def Leppard)

Deaths:
1972: Ezra Pound

30 April:

Events:
1945: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide (see also: Deaths)
1975: Vietnam war officially ends
1980: Queen Beatrix accedes to throne in the Netherlands
1988: In Dublin, Celine Dion wins Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland
1993: World Wide Web born
1999: That nailbomber bombed the Admiral Duncan pub - his third and last bomb.

Births:
1938: Larry Niven
1946: King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
1954: Jane Campion

Deaths:
1792: John Montagu, inventor of the sandwich
1883: Edouard Manet
1945: Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler
1983: Muddy Waters

Holiday:
Children's Day in Mexico. Yippee! Must have a pinata at the party.

Overheard

A friend of mine took a short bus trip with her toddler yesterday. A man on the bus was muttering about lazy women and irritating children while she was on the bus, and as she and the toddler got out at the library, he said:

"What's wrong with mothers now, can't any of them walk the streets any more?!"