The Wikipedia Birthday Meme

[melwil]

From everyone:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.

December 29

Neat Facts

1170 - Thomas Becket is slain in his own cathedral by knights eager to please Henry II of England.

1891 - Thomas Edison patents the radio.

1934 - The first college basketball game at New York City's Madison Square Garden is played between the University of Notre Dame and New York University.

Births

1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, American dancer

Deaths

1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)
1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)

Hee! Rasputin!

BTW - HAPPY BIRTHDAY krazykitkat!!

I hope you're having a splendid day!

Comments

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Hon. The sun's shining.

[cesario.livejournal.com]

Hah. I didn't do this meme because for the longest time I had a book called the Birthday Encyclopedia (or something like that) and I already knew absolutely everything remotely cool to have happened on my birthday.

F'rinstance I share my birthday with Lord Byron, John Hurt, and....Rasputin.

Hahahahaha.