Meme

Apr 07, 2006 06:58

Gacked from
laiquendai who gacked from
zarrah04 who gacked from
kantayra who gacked from around! Whew got that all out.

Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/). Type in your birth date (but not year). 
a. List three events that happened on your birthday. 
b. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. 
Post this in your journal.

Events
1. 1955 - Black Mississippian Emmett Till is murdered, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
2. 1963 - During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
3. 1996 - Britain's Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.

Birthday's (not so much important but I cuold really careless about the other people born on my b-day)

1. Jason Priestley (born August 28, 1969), actor, was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is best known for his role on the television series Beverly Hills 90210 as the virtuous Brandon Walsh. He also appeared on the short-lived television series Sister Kate (1989). He received good reviews for his work in Love and Death on Long Island (1997), in which he played a teen idol. In 2004 he became a series regular on Tru Calling, and in 2006 joined the series Love Monkey.
2. Shania Twain, OC (born August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has been very successful in the country and pop music genres, setting several sales records for female artists and for country artists.

Death (I just found this guy interesting)
Afonso V of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA /ɐ'fõsu/; English Alphonzo), or Affonso (Archaic Portuguese), the African (Port. o Africano), 12th king of Portugal and Algarves was born in Sintra in January 15, 1432 and died in the same city in August 28, 1481. He was the oldest son of king Duarte of Portugal by his wife, princess Eleanor of Aragon. Afonso V was onlly six years old when he succeeded his father in 1438.
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