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Go to Wikipedia, type in your birthday, but not the year, and select 3 events, births, and deaths that share that day with you.
May 6th
Events:
1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1940 - John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1983 - The Hitler diaries were revealed as a hoax when experts examined the books and concluded that they were fake. (That one happened the day I was born)
Births:
1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
1915 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
1945 - Bob Seger, American singer
Deaths:
1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
1919 - L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
May 6th
Events:
1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1940 - John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1983 - The Hitler diaries were revealed as a hoax when experts examined the books and concluded that they were fake. (That one happened the day I was born)
Births:
1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
1915 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
1945 - Bob Seger, American singer
Deaths:
1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
1919 - L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)