Apr 10, 2006 07:21
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
Three Facts:
- 1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
- 1966 - Musician Bob Dylan crashes his Triumph motorcycle in upstate New York. He goes into seclusion for over a year before reemerging and reinventing himself artistically.
- 1987 - British PM Margaret Thatcher and French president François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel)... I kinda ran out of interesting ones... the rest were really really bad events.
Two Births:
- 1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player - ha, ha... snooker.
- 1973 - Stephen Dorff, American actor
One Death:
- 1982 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor - he helped invent television.