Guess who's bored at work
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death, including the year:
January 28
Events
(there are obvious, well-known ones, like 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven astronauts onboard. - but I'm goin for strange ones)
(again, there are the obvious ones: Elijah Wood, Nick Carter, and Joey Fatone, but everyone knows those already :-p)
January 28
Events
(there are obvious, well-known ones, like 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven astronauts onboard. - but I'm goin for strange ones)
- 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
- 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
- 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick. (yeaaaaaa ginormous snowflakes exactly 100 years before my birth- work it!)
(again, there are the obvious ones: Elijah Wood, Nick Carter, and Joey Fatone, but everyone knows those already :-p)
- 1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1969 - Mo Rocca, Writer and comedian (yeah VH1, haha - you should check out his wikipedia page - I didn't know he wrote for Wishbone!!! and other interesting facts)
- 814 - Charlemagne (b. 742) (holla to AP Euro ;-) Charlemagne --------> Corn)