neat information on your birthday

Apr 11, 2006 22:36

Go to Wikipedia and put in your birthday without the year and list 3 neat facts, 2 births, and 1 death and include the year on these events...

EVENTS

1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

1972 - Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.

BIRTHS

1797 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (d. 1848)

1930 - Shirley Porter, Dame Commander of the British Empire

DEATHS

1999 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
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