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"Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday"
Four events:
43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed. (this makes me feel powerful.)
1789 - A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress. (my favorite holiday)
1922 - Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).
1977 - 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
Three births:
1607 - John Harvard, English-born clergyman (d. 1638)
1792 - Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
1922 - Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
Two deaths:
1981 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
2002 - Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (b. 1915)
One holiday:
Bahá'í Faith: Day of the Covenant
Four events:
43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed. (this makes me feel powerful.)
1789 - A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress. (my favorite holiday)
1922 - Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).
1977 - 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
Three births:
1607 - John Harvard, English-born clergyman (d. 1638)
1792 - Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
1922 - Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
Two deaths:
1981 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
2002 - Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (b. 1915)
One holiday:
Bahá'í Faith: Day of the Covenant