August 28- Birthday Meme
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
EVENTS:
1953 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1963 - During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous "I have a dream" speech.
1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
BIRTHS:
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1968 - Billy Boyd, Scottish actor (*much love and squeeing at this*)
DEATHS:
1995 - Michael Ende, German writer (b. 1929) (toma ya)
EVENTS:
1953 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1963 - During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous "I have a dream" speech.
1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
BIRTHS:
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1968 - Billy Boyd, Scottish actor (*much love and squeeing at this*)
DEATHS:
1995 - Michael Ende, German writer (b. 1929) (toma ya)