Apr 13, 2006 18:25
Search Wikipedia.com for your birthday (excluding year) - then list 3 events, 2 births and 1 death that occurred on that day.
12th April
Three Events
1954 - Bill Haley and His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City. Initially unsuccessful, the recording would help launch the rock and roll revolution a year later.
1961 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space.
1975 - Khmer Rouge troops capture Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Two Births
1971 - Nicholas Brendon, actor
1987 - Brendon Urie, American singer (Panic! At the Disco)
One Death
65 - Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist
Also ... I found out there is a celebration on this day:
Yuri's Night, an international celebration of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin; in Russia (and formerly in USSR), the Cosmonautics Day.
We should totally celebrate Yuri's Night one year!
MEANWHILE
I found out that more people are killed by honeybees than by all the poisonous snakes in the world combined. HONEYBEES
So all those people who made fun of me for being scared of bees - I WAS RIGHT THEY ARE EVIL