oh wikipedia

Apr 07, 2006 12:58

...borrowed from faithy...
Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.

5 June

fascinating events
1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

Two Births
1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
1919 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)

death
2004 - Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States (b. 1911)

voila!
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