Birthday Meme
Birthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Events:
1600 - Battle of Sekigahara 1835 - The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
1968 - The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1997 - Google was founded.
Births:
1254 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)
1964 - Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, former guitarrist for horror punk band The Misfits
Deaths:
1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
Holiday:
The United Kingdom - the British commemorate the Battle of Britain on the day of the last massive Luftwaffe attack in 1940.
Events:
1968 - The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1997 - Google was founded.
Births:
1254 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)
1964 - Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, former guitarrist for horror punk band The Misfits
Deaths:
1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
Holiday:
The United Kingdom - the British commemorate the Battle of Britain on the day of the last massive Luftwaffe attack in 1940.