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meme stolen from krystal
June 24
The Rules:
1. Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2. List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday. (I stuck with three because it's such an awesome number!)
Facts:
1. 1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
2. 1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England.
3. 1947 - First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
Births:
1. 1908 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d 1987)
2. 1942 - Mick Fleetwood, musician (Fleetwood Mac)
3. 1911 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (d. 1995)
Deaths:
1. 1908 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure) (b. 1837)
2. 1935 - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)
3. 2005 - Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
June 24
The Rules:
1. Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2. List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday. (I stuck with three because it's such an awesome number!)
Facts:
1. 1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
2. 1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England.
3. 1947 - First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
Births:
1. 1908 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d 1987)
2. 1942 - Mick Fleetwood, musician (Fleetwood Mac)
3. 1911 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (d. 1995)
Deaths:
1. 1908 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure) (b. 1837)
2. 1935 - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)
3. 2005 - Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)