Happy Birth-Meme to Me!
Go to Wikipedia. Enter your birthday (without the year). List three nifty things that happened on that date, three other people that were born, and three people that died.
On January 10th, the following made history:
Events
1776 ~ Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
1984 ~ The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.
2001 ~ Wikipedia started as part of Nupedia (oooh...meta-memeage!).
Births
1836/1865 ~ Charles and Mary Ingalls from the autobiographical series, Little House on the Prarie.
1930 ~ Roy Edward Disney, American film executive (and the force behind ousting Michael Eisner and revamping the Disney company)
1945 ~ Rod Stewart, the gravelly yet sexy English singer
Deaths
1917 ~ "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman
1951 ~ Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
2004 ~ Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (what a repertoire...)
On January 10th, the following made history:
Events
1776 ~ Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
1984 ~ The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.
2001 ~ Wikipedia started as part of Nupedia (oooh...meta-memeage!).
Births
1836/1865 ~ Charles and Mary Ingalls from the autobiographical series, Little House on the Prarie.
1930 ~ Roy Edward Disney, American film executive (and the force behind ousting Michael Eisner and revamping the Disney company)
1945 ~ Rod Stewart, the gravelly yet sexy English singer
Deaths
1917 ~ "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman
1951 ~ Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
2004 ~ Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (what a repertoire...)