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Birthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Birthday: December 9
Events
1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
1958 - Red Scare: The John Birch Society was founded in the United States.
1960 - The first episode of Britain's longest running soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast.
1979 - The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
Births
1934 - Dame Judi Dench, English actress
1957 - Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
1969 - Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)
Deaths
1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)
2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
Holiday
Tanzania - Independence Day (of Tanganika from Britain, 1961)
Birthday: December 9
Events
1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
1958 - Red Scare: The John Birch Society was founded in the United States.
1960 - The first episode of Britain's longest running soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast.
1979 - The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
Births
1934 - Dame Judi Dench, English actress
1957 - Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
1969 - Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)
Deaths
1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)
2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
Holiday
Tanzania - Independence Day (of Tanganika from Britain, 1961)