Apr 09, 2006 19:07
How to play:
* Type your birthday (minus the year) into the WikiPedia search bar.
* List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.
July 20th;
1903 - Pope Leo XIII died. (runner-up: Bruce Lee.)
1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway was born.
1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealan mountain climber was born.
1917 - In the United States, the first military draft numbers are drawn for World War 1.
1944 - World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.
Shoemaker-Levy 9: 1, Jupiter: 0.
-Fritz-