Birthday Meme
Go to Wikipedia and enter your date of birth.
Then pick four events, three births, two deaths, and one holiday.
Events
1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic in the United States.
1945 - Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
Births
1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
1893 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
1981 - Ivanka Trump, American model
Deaths
1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
Holiday
USA - Mischief Night in some areas (known as Devil's Night in Michigan)
Then pick four events, three births, two deaths, and one holiday.
Events
1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic in the United States.
1945 - Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
Births
1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
1893 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
1981 - Ivanka Trump, American model
Deaths
1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
Holiday
USA - Mischief Night in some areas (known as Devil's Night in Michigan)