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Alex R ([personal profile] alexr_rwx) wrote2006-04-10 01:12 pm

I like this game

The Wikipedia game:

Search for your birthday. Post 3 events, 2 births, 1 death.

Events
- 5509 BC - The world was created, according to the Byzantine Empire.
- 1928 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
- 1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Polish September Campaign.)

Births
- 1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer
- 1968 - Mohammed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (d. 2001)

Deaths
- 1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)

[identity profile] rheavatarin.livejournal.com 2006-04-10 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Events
- 1792 - French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
- 1931 - The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
- 1972 - Apollo 17 becomes the sixth mission to land on the Moon.

Births

- 1882 - Max Born, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1962 - Ben Browder, American actor

Deaths
- 1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand-born astronomer and computing pioneer (b. 1893)

[identity profile] elysianboarder.livejournal.com 2006-04-10 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Three popes dies on my birthday. THREE!

[identity profile] gtv42.livejournal.com 2006-04-19 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Events
515 BC - Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem.
1947 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1956 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for the first time (500.24)

Births
1922 - Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
1953 - Ron Jeremy, American actor

Deaths
604 - Pope Gregory I

(by the by, you're now friended. sorry for the oversight.)