Wikimeme

Apr 07, 2006 16:52

Rules: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Neat facts:

1429 - French forces, led by Jeanne d'Arc, take Orléans.
1945 - Holocaust: The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
1969 - Jazz musician Duke Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Births:

1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader
1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan 1926-1989.

Deaths:

1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director

Infected by frualeydis and armillary. I used both the English and Swedish Wikipedia.

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