Apr 06, 2006 17:48
1.Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2.List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.
April 26
Events:
1802 - A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that would ultimately consolidate his own rule.
1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1994 - South Africa holds its first multiracial elections.
Births:
1564 (baptized) - William Shakespeare, English writer (d. 1616)
1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
Deaths:
1932 - Hart Crane, American poet (suicide) (b. 1899)
1989 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)