Meme: Wikipedia birthday
Stolen from peke
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday. Post four events, three birthdays, two deaths, and one holiday.
Events:
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
1958 - The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1988 - Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing 5000 people and injured about 10000 people.
Birthdays:
1912 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
1989 - Peaches Geldof, English Dosser
1989 - Theo Walcott, English footballer
Deaths:
37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
2008 - John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (b. 1922)
Holiday:
The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday. Post four events, three birthdays, two deaths, and one holiday.
Events:
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
1958 - The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1988 - Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing 5000 people and injured about 10000 people.
Birthdays:
1912 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
1989 - Peaches Geldof, English Dosser
1989 - Theo Walcott, English footballer
Deaths:
37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
2008 - John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (b. 1922)
Holiday:
The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome