Jan 09, 2007 21:32
Go to wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year)and list three neat events, two deaths and one birth.
Events:
1776 - Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to a committee to draft a declaration of independence.
1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1963 - Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
Deaths:
1979 - John Wayne (born Marion Morrison), American actor (b. 1907)
1999 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
Births:
1864 - Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
1959 - Hugh Laurie, English actor and comedian