An interesting meme via Will:

Go 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.

Birth date: February 13th
Events:

• 1960 – Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
• 1996 – Pop group Take That announce that they are splitting up.
• 2000 – The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

Births:

• 1938 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1944 – Jerry Springer, American television host

Death:

• 1542 – Catherine Howard, queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. 1525)

Categories: Other

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One Response

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   Richard Gadsden:

   Good lord, Births: 1944; Tom Gadsden (my Dad!)

   08.04.2006 13:16