Things taken from others.

Apr 11, 2006 22:18

Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday, three births, and three deaths.

Events:
1846 - First baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
1870 - After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States of America, the Confederate States of America (AKA the CSA) ceases to exist.
1912 - The eight-hour work day is established in the United States.

Deaths:
1953 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (executed)
1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (executed)
1993 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate

Births:
1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher
1903 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player
1947 - Salman Rushdie, Indian author
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