Apr 15, 2006 13:07
This idea stolen from our good lunatic B33r/Manjaro/GoTP.
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthdate (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births, and one death that happened on that date.
EVENTS:
1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
2001 - U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
2002 - Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released.
BIRTHS:
1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908
1887 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923])
DEATH:
1017 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (b. 976)