Wiki meme

Apr 07, 2006 00:31


Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year:

Fun Facts
  • 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
  • 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. 
  • 1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. (He dies on June 6).

Births
  • 1919 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)
  • 1980 - Draco Malfoy (from the Harry Potter series)

Death
  • 2004 - Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States (b. 1911)
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