Retrophisch

On my birthday in history

You know, if it weren’t Lee, and it wasn’t about history, I’d ignore this meme. For one, I don’t utilize Wikipedia, and two, I don’t usually go in for Internet memes. However, since it did come from Lee, and it is about history, on December 3d:

Events

• 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition mark their explorations from the Missouri River overland to the Columbia River on a pine tree.
  
• 1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
  
• 1973 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.

Births

• 1368 - King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
  
• 1826 - George McClellan, U.S. Civil War general (d. 1885)
  
• 1970 - Christian Karembeu, French international footballer and World Cup winner (had to include someone born the same year as I)

Deaths

• 1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
  
• 1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer (b. 1850)
  
• 1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)

Due to the facts that (1) as previously mentioned, I don’t like Internet memes, and perhaps more importantly, (2) Lee and Lawson have already tagged pretty much anyone I would, I’m going to be a nice guy and let this die here.