I stole this from Mielikki, who stole it from Monkey-Girl.
Go to Wikipedia, type in the month and day of your birth, and then list 3 events, 2 births and a holiday that fell on that day. Here are mine:
Holiday: World Food Day
Birth: 1854 Oscar Wilde (Irish writer)
Birth: 1977 John Mayer, American Musician
Event: 1916 Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
Event: 1922 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney & his brother, Roy Disney.
Event: 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis between the United States & Cuba began.
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Wow, this is cool - here's mine
Events:
781 - The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji
1981 - 42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends in the United States.
1999 - Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector - NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
Births:
1943 - Lobo, American singer and songwriter
1978 - Will Champion, English drummer (Coldplay)
Holiday:
La Hae Hawai‘i - Hawaiian Flag Day.
I'm going to copy you. :)
Nice idea!
Holiday: Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba
Birth: 1834 - James McNeil Whistler, American painter
Birth: 1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player
Event: 988 - The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
Event: 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
Event: 1985 - Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
I'll have to wait until I get home for that.
Oooohhh, this is so going on my blog!
Here's mine:
Holiday: Canada Day - national holiday of Canada
Birth: 1906 – Estee Lauder, American entrepreneur
Birth: 1952 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor
Birth: 1977 – Liv Tyler,
American actress
Event: 1984 - The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
Event: 1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
Event: 1972 - First gay pride march in England
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