Wikipedia meme

Aug 20, 2008 18:22

Go to Wikipedia and enter your date of birth.
Then pick four events, three births, two deaths, and one holiday.

Events:

1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 - Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1967 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

Births:
272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1962 - Adam Baldwin, American actor (JAYNE!!!)

Deaths:

1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)

Holiday:

Roman Empire - Equirria; horse races in honor of the war god Mars were held.
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