June 23rd

Apr 06, 2006 22:19

Wikipedia Meme:

Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at http://wikipedia.org/

List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

Facts
1865 - American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army
1940 - World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
1972 - Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

Births
1929 - June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
1955 - Glenn Danzig, American musician (The Misfits and Danzig)
1964 - Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter

Death
1615 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
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