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)