Wiki B-day meme
Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.com) and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
(Me? I'll post what I damned well please. I promise, there is some cool stuff )
1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1959 - The first Grammy Awards are announced.
1960 - The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was part of a storm system that produces 66 tornadoes. The Oklahoma City tornado kills 42 people and injures 665, and causes $1 billion in damage. (see The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak)
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
Births:
612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
1903 - Bing Crosby, American singer (d. 1977)
1905 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
1937 - Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons)
Deaths:
1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
Holidays and observances
-National Teacher Day in the United States
-World Press Freedom Day
-Roman Catholicism - Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (often called the Feast of the Invention of the True Cross)
-Israel - Yom Ha'atzma'ut (Israeli Independence Day) for 2006: (the observed date of this national holiday is determined by the Jewish Calendar).
-Discoflux (Discordianism)
(Me? I'll post what I damned well please. I promise, there is some cool stuff )
1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1959 - The first Grammy Awards are announced.
1960 - The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was part of a storm system that produces 66 tornadoes. The Oklahoma City tornado kills 42 people and injures 665, and causes $1 billion in damage. (see The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak)
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
Births:
612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
1903 - Bing Crosby, American singer (d. 1977)
1905 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
1937 - Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons)
Deaths:
1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
Holidays and observances
-National Teacher Day in the United States
-World Press Freedom Day
-Roman Catholicism - Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (often called the Feast of the Invention of the True Cross)
-Israel - Yom Ha'atzma'ut (Israeli Independence Day) for 2006: (the observed date of this national holiday is determined by the Jewish Calendar).
-Discoflux (Discordianism)