Birthday Meme
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ladybluestar
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
(Note: I also can't handle limits,
ladybluestar.)
1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1930 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1935 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: As part of the impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to US President Bill Clinton.
1999 - United States v. Microsoft: U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues a preliminary ruling that software maker Microsoft had "monopoly power".
2003 - The final installment of the Matrix Trilogy (The Matrix Revolutions) is released in theatres simultaneously around the world at 2:00 pm (GMT).
2004 - The Incredibles is released by Buena Vista Distribution in the United States.*
*Had to include this last one just because Michele and I actually went to see it the day it released. ;)
All election results grouped together:
1912 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a victory over the Progressive former President Theodore Roosevelt and Republican incumbent William Howard Taft.
1940 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' only third-term president.
1968 - U.S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.
1996 - U.S. presidential election, 1996: Democrat incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
Births
1931 - Ike Turner, American musician
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
Deaths
1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
ladybluestar
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
(Note: I also can't handle limits,
ladybluestar.)
1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1930 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1935 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: As part of the impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to US President Bill Clinton.
1999 - United States v. Microsoft: U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues a preliminary ruling that software maker Microsoft had "monopoly power".
2003 - The final installment of the Matrix Trilogy (The Matrix Revolutions) is released in theatres simultaneously around the world at 2:00 pm (GMT).
2004 - The Incredibles is released by Buena Vista Distribution in the United States.*
*Had to include this last one just because Michele and I actually went to see it the day it released. ;)
All election results grouped together:
1912 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a victory over the Progressive former President Theodore Roosevelt and Republican incumbent William Howard Taft.
1940 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' only third-term president.
1968 - U.S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.
1996 - U.S. presidential election, 1996: Democrat incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
Births
1931 - Ike Turner, American musician
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
Deaths
1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)