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Apr 08, 2006 08:47

swiped from darkangel. this is a pretty fun meme.

Go to wikipedia, enter in your birthdate (sans year), post three events, two births and one death.

THREE EVENTS. (I've picked out the natural ones, and noticed that only bad things and music releases happen on my birthday)

1994 - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California; see 1994 Northridge Earthquake.

1995 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake (known as "the Great Hanshin earthquake" hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,433 people.

2002 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.

BIRTHS (oooh, bad things and presidents on my birthday, oh shit, same thing)

1860 - Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (d. 1949)

1863 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)

1943 - René Préval, President of Haiti

1948 - Davíð Oddsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland.

DEATHS (But it's okay, they die on my birthday too)
395 - Theodosius I, Roman Emperor
1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
2005 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)

and one extra: Holidays: 2005 - USA - Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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