Birthday fun

Apr 08, 2006 11:23

From xinexine72

1.Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2.List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

FACTS:
Other than Napolean apparently being very, very productive on my bday, here's a few other things that happened.

1. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).

2. 1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.

3. 1969 - Golda Meir elected as the first female Prime Minister of Isreal.

BDAYS:

1934 - Willard Scott, American television broadcaster (I always liked that one! When I was a kid, I was like, "When I'm 100, Willard Scott can put me on TV and it'll be his birthday too!" I was not that bright of a kid.)

1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist (w00t!)

DEATH:
322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher (b. 384 BC) (Awww..suck!)

interesting, birthday

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