The Wikipedia Birthday Meme
Apr. 9th, 2006 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melwilFrom 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
krazykitkat!!
I hope you're having a splendid day!
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!
