wicked weird
Stolen from Jennifer
1. Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at http://wikipedia.org.
2. List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday. (May 30.)
FACTS:
1604 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
1781 - General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionaries at Yorktown, Virginia
1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
BIRTHS:
1898 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher (d. 1998)
1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
1972 - Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer
DEATH:
1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
1. Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at http://wikipedia.org.
2. List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday. (May 30.)
FACTS:
1604 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
1781 - General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionaries at Yorktown, Virginia
1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
BIRTHS:
1898 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher (d. 1998)
1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
1972 - Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer
DEATH:
1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)