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Apr 07, 2006 17:21

Look up your birthday (not the year, dummy) on Wikipedia and list 3 neat facts, 2 births, and one death.

1775 - Two lanterns were hung from the steeple of the Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts. Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons. Only Prescott finishes the ride.
1946 - The League of Nations is dissolved.
1983 - A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.

1771 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal
1986 - Eric Garside, future leader of the second Communist Revolution

1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge
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