Apr 08, 2006 12:14
The Birthday Meme - put your birthday in the search area of Wikipedia (minus the year), and list three interesting facts, two births and one death that happened on that day.
Events:
1871 - French Government troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
1945 - American screen legend Humphrey Bogart marries actress Lauren Bacall.
2004 - Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983
Births:
1904 - Fats Waller, American jazz pianist (d. 1943)
1952 - Mr. T, American actor
Death:
1542 - Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer