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Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (month/day) and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.
Events
1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1793 - Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these people are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
1953 - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
Births
1977 - Zachary Quinto, American actor (Oh yeah. That's right. ^___^)
# 1955 - Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
Holiday
World Pétanque Day.]
Oh - and two deaths.
2008 - Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
1996 - John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
Events
1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1793 - Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these people are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
1953 - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
Births
1977 - Zachary Quinto, American actor (Oh yeah. That's right. ^___^)
# 1955 - Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
Holiday
World Pétanque Day.]
Oh - and two deaths.
2008 - Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
1996 - John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)