Birthday Meme
Wikipedia your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday:
June 21st
events:
2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
1948 - Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
1948 - The "Manchester Baby ( Read more... )
June 21st
events:
2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
1948 - Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
1948 - The "Manchester Baby ( Read more... )
Comments 1
1913 - The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1959 - A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and Roger Peterson also known as The Day the Music Died.
1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
births
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (d. 1946)
1943 - Blythe Danner, American actress
deaths
1922 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
1959 - Buddy Holly, American singer/guitarist (b. 1936)
holiday
the earliest calendar day that Mardi Gras can occur.
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