Meme thing
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:
1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
1946 - Start of the First Indochina War.
1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
Births:
1899 - Martin Luther King, Sr., American baptist minister and father of Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr (d. 1984)
1944 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002)
1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
Deaths:
1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946)
2009 - Kim Peek, American prodigious savant and inspiration for the 1988 film Rain Man (b. 1951)
Holidays:
Liberation day - Goa
R.C. Saints - O Radix
Roman festivals - Opalia
And I tag summersdream, speakssoftly, and nick_mjr
Events:
1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
1946 - Start of the First Indochina War.
1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
Births:
1899 - Martin Luther King, Sr., American baptist minister and father of Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr (d. 1984)
1944 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002)
1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
Deaths:
1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946)
2009 - Kim Peek, American prodigious savant and inspiration for the 1988 film Rain Man (b. 1951)
Holidays:
Liberation day - Goa
R.C. Saints - O Radix
Roman festivals - Opalia
And I tag summersdream, speakssoftly, and nick_mjr