Wikipedia Birthday Meme

<sfx: kvetching about webmemes, doing them anyway>

So the Wikipedia Birthday meme: List (at least) three events, two births and one death from the page for your birthday on Wikipedia. Here’s mine for April 26th:

Events

  • 1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
  • 1954 - The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
  • 1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
  • 1994 - South Africa holds its first multiracial elections.

Births

  • 1564 (baptized) - William Shakespeare, English writer (d. 1616)
  • 1711 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
  • 1963 - Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor

Deaths

  • 1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838)
  • 1984 - Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)

Observances

  • Intellectual property - World Intellectual Property Day (since 2001) (Ironic, isn’t it?)

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One Response to “Wikipedia Birthday Meme”

  1. Tony P Says:
    April 11th, 2006 at 12:16 pm

    Mine’s a popular day to die, evidently….

    Events

    * 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
* 1877 - Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer is given a funeral with full military honors.

* 1971 - Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

    Births

    * 1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer
* 1969 - Brett Favre, American football player
* 1977 - Anthony H Payne, Jr, master of all trades

    Deaths

    * 19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
* 1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
* 1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
* 1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
* 1901 - Lorenzo Snow, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
* 1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)

    Holidays

    * World Mental Health Day

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