Stolen from Lillith:

Apr 11, 2006 11:49

The Wikipedia meme.
Go to Wikipedia.org In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two birthdays, two deaths, and one holiday or observance. Or, be like lillith and list as many of each as you want. Post this in your journal.
May 2

events:
1933 - The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported.
1946 - "Battle of Alcatraz" - Alcatraz Federal prison, San Francisco is taken over by six inmates following failed escape attempt
1986 - The 1986 World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, opens.
1999 - Panamanian election: Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.

births:
1802 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
1985 - Sarah Hughes, American figure skater

deaths:
1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452)

holidays/observances:
College Board's Advanced Placement Program Testing Begins (That's horrible. I can't believe they put it on there. we should all fast and beat ourselves with textbooks on my birthday)
Iran - Teacher's Day

right... lillith's was better. I mean, she got Lucy Lawless, I got Nessie, a chemist, and the AP tests. That's just classic.
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