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Birthday meme
Aug 14, 2008 19:10
Look up your birthdate on Wikipedia. List 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and one holiday
Events
1616
- The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in
Frascati
,
Italy
.
1835
- The
HMS Beagle
, with
Charles Darwin
aboard, reaches the
Galápagos Islands
.
1981
- The
United States Senate
Judiciary Committee
unanimously approves
Sandra Day O'Connor
to become the first female justice on the
United States Supreme Court
.
1997
-
Google
was founded.
Births
973
-
Al-Biruni
, mathematician (d.
1048
)
1890
-
Agatha Christie
, English writer (d.
1976
)
1929 -
Murray Gell-Mann
, American physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
Deaths
1750
-
Charles Theodore Pachelbel
, German composer (b.
1690
)
2007 -
Brett Somers
, Canadian-born American actress and
Match Game
panelist (b.
1924
)
Holidays and observances
In
ancient Greece
, the second day of the
Eleusinian Mysteries
, when the priests of
Demeter
declared the public start of the rites.
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