Apr 08, 2006 02:51
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday, excluding the year. List three events, three births and three deaths that happened on that day in history.
January 29th
EVENTS
1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
BIRTHS
1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American talk-show host, producer, actress, and publisher
DEATHS
1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
1998 - Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)