birthday memething

Apr 12, 2006 08:51

(from zmiya_san)

Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.

Events
1429 - French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc crush the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1858 - Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory
1981 - AIDS is identified.

Birthdays
1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
1942 - Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa

Deaths
1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host (murdered)
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