Apr 08, 2006 17:08
Go to Wikipedia and type in your b-day without the year. Pick 5 6 events that happened to show off:
May 16
1836 - Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia.
1929 - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
1943 - Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1966 - Two extremely influential rock albums are released on the same day: Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.
1988 - A report by American Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
.....also share the same birthday as Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611 - d. 1689), Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor (b. 1953), Rosie Perez, American actress (b. 1963), Janet Jackson, American singer (b. 1966), David Boreanaz, American actor (b. 1971), and Tori Spelling, American actress (b. 1973), to name a few...