Thanks Chad

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)
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