Meme gacked from everyone
Apr. 7th, 2006 04:33 pmGo to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/).Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
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Events
66 - Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.
1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
1862 - Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1975 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
1980 - Iraq invades Iran.
1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.
Meaningless Media Events xD
1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1994 - Friends premieres on NBC.
1999 - The West Wing premieres on NBC
2004 - Lost premieres on ABC
Births
1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1987 - Tom Felton, English actor (LOL, dude, he's only a year younger than me o.O)
Deaths
1253 - Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)
1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer
Random
In ancient Greece, the ninth and final day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates made offerings to the dead.
Hobbit Day, the birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, is observed by fans of J.R.R. Tolkien. (However, this date as given in The Lord of the Rings was in the fictional Shire Calendar and therefore does not correspond exactly to the Gregorian date.)
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Events
Meaningless Media Events xD
Births
Deaths
Random