Apr 10, 2006 15:56
Go to Wikipedia, enter your birthdate sans year. List three events, two births, and one death.
Ok, so more than 3 events:
1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
1979 - Pink Floyd release the album The Wall.
1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio. '
1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
My birthday buddies:
1667 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d.1745)
1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. 1910)
1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1955 - Billy Idol, British musician
and finally... 1978 - Clay Aiken, American singer
And those whose souls might be inhabiting my body:
1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854) (YES!!! I wish I were a Dandy)
Aparently my birthday is also the day of independence for Barbados (1966).
I <3 Wikipedia