August 27 (Wikipedia meme)

Apr 07, 2006 14:13

Go to Wikipedia, look up your birth day (minus year), and choose 3 facts, 2 births and 2 deaths.

1776 - The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn. Admiral Richard Howe, in supreme command of British forces in New York, ordered his troops to move against the Continental Army at dawn. The American outpost under Colonel Edward Hand sent word to Lieutenant General George Washington that the British were preparing to cross to Long Island from Staten Island. Under the overall command of Lieutenant General Sir William Howe, and the operational command of Major Generals Charles Cornwallis and Sir Henry Clinton, the British force numbered 4,000. The British commenced their landing in Gravesend Bay, where, after strengthening his forces for over seven weeks on Staten Island, Admiral Lord Howe moved 88 frigates. The British landed a total of 15,000 men in Brooklyn, out of a total of 32,000 men in the area.

1813 - The Battle of Dresden. Resulted in a French victory under Napoleon Bonaparte against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussians under Field Marshal Schwartzenberg. However, Napoleon's victory was not as complete as it could have been. Substantial pursuit was not undertaken after the battle, and the flanking corps was surrounded and forced to surrender a few days later at the Battle of Kulm.

2000 - Ostankino Tower, also know as The Moscow Beauty. Caught fire, disrupting television and radio signals to the 18 million people in and around Moscow. In addition, three people were killed in the blaze. The fire broke out approximately 98 meters (320 feet) above the observation platform and the Seventh Heaven restaurant, necessitating an evacuation of all visitors and staff from those locations. The only television station not affected was the private NTV station, but the government decreed that state channels took priority, and as such, the RTR TV channel began transmitting to several Moscow districts.

Births:

1910 - Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1997)


1950 - Charles Fleischer, American actor *He Was the Voice for Roger Rabbit in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit*
(born the year my mother and father were born!)


Deaths:

1929 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist whose scientific contribution includes his work addressing the long-term habitation of space. (b. 1892)


1963 - W.E.B. DuBois, an African American civil rights activist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, freemason, and scholar (b. 1868)

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