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Stolen from fahnuir
Wikipedia meme
Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) .Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday, three important birthdays and three interesting deaths. Post this in your journal.
Events
1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.
1887 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
1945 - World War II: The final German surrender to Marshal Georgy Zhukov at Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
Births:
1800 - John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1921 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
1962 - David Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)
Deaths:
1747 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
1791 - Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)
1994 - Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
Wikipedia meme
Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) .Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday, three important birthdays and three interesting deaths. Post this in your journal.
Events
1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.
1887 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
1945 - World War II: The final German surrender to Marshal Georgy Zhukov at Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
Births:
1800 - John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1921 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
1962 - David Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)
Deaths:
1747 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
1791 - Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)
1994 - Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)