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Got this from notasfatasmike, my thankless roommate. Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birthday without the year. List 3 cool facts, 2 births, and a death.
January 29 IN HISTORY!
3 facts
1933 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany. He represents the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). Twelve years later, no one is ever again named Adolf. Referring to unpopular teachers as Die Führer skyrockets.
1964 - Stanley Kubrick's black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the U.S., satirizing the doctrine of mutually assured destruction
2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2 births
1737 - Thomas Paine, the man whose Common Sense pamphlet jumpstarted a certain insurrection against Britain (oh, and he coined a name you might have heard of: "The United States of America")
1945 - Tom Selleck, mustache
1 Death
1956 - H. L. Mencken, outspoken social commentator and atheist whom the New York Times in the 1920s once called the most powerful private citizen in the world, the man responsible for the Scopes trial being remembered as the Scopes "Monkey" trial, and the guy I quote about a bizillion times on my info page, and holy shit I seriously had no idea he died exactly 27 years before I was born and he's practically my hero. (b. 1880)
I guess I have a new something to drink to on my next birthday... Anyone'd like to help me do this properly?
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
- H. L. Mencken
January 29 IN HISTORY!
3 facts
1933 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany. He represents the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). Twelve years later, no one is ever again named Adolf. Referring to unpopular teachers as Die Führer skyrockets.
1964 - Stanley Kubrick's black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the U.S., satirizing the doctrine of mutually assured destruction
2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2 births
1737 - Thomas Paine, the man whose Common Sense pamphlet jumpstarted a certain insurrection against Britain (oh, and he coined a name you might have heard of: "The United States of America")
1945 - Tom Selleck, mustache
1 Death
1956 - H. L. Mencken, outspoken social commentator and atheist whom the New York Times in the 1920s once called the most powerful private citizen in the world, the man responsible for the Scopes trial being remembered as the Scopes "Monkey" trial, and the guy I quote about a bizillion times on my info page, and holy shit I seriously had no idea he died exactly 27 years before I was born and he's practically my hero. (b. 1880)
I guess I have a new something to drink to on my next birthday... Anyone'd like to help me do this properly?
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
- H. L. Mencken