No, it's not my birthday. Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, two births and one death, including the year.
I found a lot of entries to choose from - some of them I knew, most I didn't...
Events
1861 - American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia, is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1945 - World War II: VE Day. German forces agree to an unconditional surrender.
2005 - The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day.
Births
1884 - Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972)
1926 - Sir David Attenborough, British television presenter and producer
1947 - H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Death
1988 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (b. 1907)
See there - I had no idea that my favorite sci-fi writer died on my birthday. Cheerfully lifted from Echo9er. |
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