Apr 26, 2006 17:15
"Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year."
Events:
1906 - The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, opens in Athens.
1967 - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, the longest-running children's series on U.S. television, airs its first episode.
1990 - The Windows 3.0 operating system is released by Microsoft.
Births:
1688 - Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
1925 - James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
Death:
1967 - Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)