Wikipedia Birth Date Meme (via drmellow)

[blistermoth]

Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birth date but not the year. List three neat events, three births and two deaths, include the year.

August 19th

Events:

*1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Massachusetts five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
* 1990 - Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
# 1991 - Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev is overthrown by a coup. This leads to the fall of the Soviet Union (I remember waking up early in the morning to hear this news on the radio)


Births:

1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
1930 - Frank McCourt, Irish-born author


Deaths:

1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)

Comments

[yarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

Neat. 8-19 is my brother's birthday.

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Not to mention Bill Clinton.

Happy birthday!

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Well, happy three months and a few weeks to your birthday.

You know what I mean.

[blistermoth.livejournal.com]

understood.

[dondlion.livejournal.com]

Franki McCourt wasn't born in Ireland. He was born in New York, I think.

I realise that no one cares, but it bugged me.

You're right!

[blistermoth.livejournal.com]

Yes he was born in Brooklyn. Wikipedia does a lot of things well but I don't trust it too much.

[novak.livejournal.com]

Allow me to be captivated by (naturally) the least important thing you're trying to do: I got a real kick out of your icon. That's it! The End.