Birthday meme

Ok...so this is Alex's fault...and Kath's for following suit. If you don't know what a meme is Wikipedia tells you. Speaking of Wikipedia here is a meme that Alex picked up from another blog based on my birthday....If you want the full details see here and here

Anyway...back to me...

Birthday 23rd July

Events (nothing too earth shaking for me here)

• 1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter.
• 1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
• 1973 - Robert Anton Wilson, the occultist/philosopher, either achieved contact with extraterrestrials from Sirius or started a long-term period of having wild hallucinations, depending on which way you want to look at it.

Birthdays (not that exciting either)

• 1888 - Raymond Chandler, American-born author (d. 1959)
• 1973 - Monica Lewinsky, White House intern

Deaths (almost the only name I recognised)

• 1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)