Wikipedia Meme

By the command of my Austin friend, Tara Hacker:
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. List any holidays
6. Post it.
July 28 – Three Events
1914 – World War I begins
1945 – A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building
2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground.
July 28 – Two Births, One Death
1929 – (b) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States
1954 – (b) Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
1750 – (d) Johann Sebastian Bach
July 28 – Holidays
Canada – Commemoration of the deportation of the Acadians
San Marino – Fall of the Fascist Government
Now go my Loyal Cruft Readers and spread the meme.

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  3. November 12
    Events:
    1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
    1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
    1982 – Lech Walensa, Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
    Births:
    1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and mass murderer
    1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician
    Death:
    1981 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
    Holidays:
    Bahá’í Faith: Holy Day, Birth of Bahá’u’lláh

  4. I’m feeling inadequate. I was stunned to only find one birthday listed for my big day (6/23). Then I checked Martins to find 109! (4/15).

  6. As the wife pointed out… so many to choose from!
    April 15…
    Events:
    1865 – Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
    1923 – Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.
    1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport’s color line.
    1955 – The first McDonald’s restaurant opens in Des Plaines, Illinois.
    Births:
    1452 – Leonardo da Vinci
    1933 – Roy Clark
    1951 – Heloise
    1954 – Seka
    1969 – Milton Bradley
    1972 – Arturo Gatti
    1990 – Emma Watson
    Deaths:
    1865 – Abraham Lincoln
    1912 – Victims of the RMS Titanic
    1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre
    1990 – Greta Garbo
    2001 – Joey Ramone
    Holidays:
    Major League Baseball celebrates “Jackie Robinson Day” each April 15 in all MLB ballparks
    and it is income tax day!

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