Wikipedia Meme
Look up Wikipedia and enter your birth date (no year) into the search field. From there, find three interesting events, two births and one death that happened on that date that interest you. Report your findings here.
I only mention the plane crash because that day, my family and I had just flown into England, and we saw the footage of a plane cartwheeling down the runway on TV.
- 1333 - Battle of Halidon Hill: the final battle of the Wars of Scottish Independence.
- 1945 - Montgomery Ward is seized by United States Army troops at the direction of Attorney General Francis Biddle because of its refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders. Montgomery Ward chairman Seward Avery is carried out of his office by troops.
- 1989 - A Douglas DC-10 carrying United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and his crew, 184 on board survive.
- 1814 - Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
- 1962 - Anthony Edwards, American actor
- 1374 - Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
I only mention the plane crash because that day, my family and I had just flown into England, and we saw the footage of a plane cartwheeling down the runway on TV.