Wikipedia meme
Put your month and date of birth into Wikipedia and write three events, three births, and three deaths that happened on that date.
Events:
1872 - On this day, Phileas Fogg sets off on his round world trip to return on December 21st or lose £20,000 in the book "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne
1959 - The Twilight Zone pilot premieres.
2001 - First palindromic MM-DD-YYYY date since August 31, 1380.
Births:
1800 - Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d. 1831)
1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)
1928 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
(Also Kelly Rippa, Lorraine Bracco, Sting, Annie Liebowitz, Donna Karan, Don MacLean, Rex Reed, Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott, and Wallace Stevens; remember, Christmas vacation shtups mean October babies, so we're quite common)
Deaths:
1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
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Events:
1872 - On this day, Phileas Fogg sets off on his round world trip to return on December 21st or lose £20,000 in the book "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne
1959 - The Twilight Zone pilot premieres.
2001 - First palindromic MM-DD-YYYY date since August 31, 1380.
Births:
1800 - Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d. 1831)
1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)
1928 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
(Also Kelly Rippa, Lorraine Bracco, Sting, Annie Liebowitz, Donna Karan, Don MacLean, Rex Reed, Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott, and Wallace Stevens; remember, Christmas vacation shtups mean October babies, so we're quite common)
Deaths:
1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
Chelsea will be here in an hour!