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Birthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Events:
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon that law.
Births:
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate
1961 - George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator
1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress
Deaths:
1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan
1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author
Holiday/Observance:
St. Paul's Shipwreck day
Events:
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon that law.
Births:
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate
1961 - George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator
1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress
Deaths:
1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan
1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author
Holiday/Observance:
St. Paul's Shipwreck day