Aug 12, 2008 02:10
Birthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1692 - Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
1934 - George Segal, American actor
1944 - Jerry Springer, American television host
1989 - Rhys Palmer, Australian footballer
1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
Saint Polyeuctus (patron saint of vows and treaty agreements).
Huh.