Birthdays or This Day In History

Feb 28, 2010 13:13

Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths, 3 holidays, and tag 3 friends

Events:
2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.

2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

2006 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state

Births:
1988 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer

1989 - Yvonne Zima, American actress

1991 - Matt Duchene, Canadian hockey player

Deaths:
2009 - Joe Erskine, American boxer and long distance runner (b. 1930)

2009 - John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author. (b. 1923)

2009 - Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter (b. 1917)

Holidays:

Teacher's Day in Thailand

National Religious Freedom Day in the United States, to commemorate the adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786

Berard of Carbio

My Thanks:

This is so cool! Thanks for tagging me!!! yami_firekali  I usually don't do these things, but today I couldn't resist!!!  I never knew these things happened on the day I was born!

yami_firekali, wikipedia, fun stuff

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