Everybody's doing it

Apr 08, 2006 13:04

Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at WikiPedia and list three interesting events, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

events:
404 - Last known gladiator competition in Rome takes place.
1934 - Alcatraz Island becomes a U.S. federal prison.
2000 - As the world celebrates, no major crisis arises from the dreaded Y2K computer 'millennium bug'.
births:
1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. 1972)
1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
death:
1953 - Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)
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