May 14, 2006 01:47
I usually shy away from memes, but I found this uncommonly interesting. And minimally demanding of me.
Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Events:
1156 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland.
1801 - John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
1942 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide the "final solution to the Jewish problem".
Births:
1896 - George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)
1930 - Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Death:
1965 - Alan Freed, American disk jockey (b. 1922)