Apr 08, 2006 15:51
Go to Wikipedia and enter your birthday, sans year. Copy 3 major events, 2 births, and one death into your journal, including the year.
I don't like following the crowd and too many of these were interesing so here's more than requested...
Events:
1835 - P.T. Barnum and his circus begins their first tour of the United States.
1865 - American Civil War ends - Forces under Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at Galveston, Texas, becoming the last to do so.
1897 - Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
1997 - Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Births:
1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
1955 - Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
Deaths:
1941 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1990 - Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
So the day is as bipolor as I am. How fitting.
So my unbirthday was fun and I have my sorority formal tonight. Yay for a relaxing weekend after the week from hell.