Birthday meme.
Apr. 7th, 2006 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saxikathFrom all over the place.
Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birth date but not the year. List three neat events, three births and three deaths, include the year.
December 1
Events
1885 - Although the exact date is unknown, the US Patent Office acknowledges December 1st, 1885 as the first day Dr Pepper was served.
1919 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
1955 - American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Births
1792 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
1913 - Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1945 - Bette Midler, American actress
[also Woody Allen and Richard Pryor, among others]
Deaths
1135 - Henry I of England
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
1985 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)
In other news: I need some sleep.
Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birth date but not the year. List three neat events, three births and three deaths, include the year.
December 1
Events
1885 - Although the exact date is unknown, the US Patent Office acknowledges December 1st, 1885 as the first day Dr Pepper was served.
1919 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
1955 - American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Births
1792 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
1913 - Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1945 - Bette Midler, American actress
[also Woody Allen and Richard Pryor, among others]
Deaths
1135 - Henry I of England
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
1985 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)
In other news: I need some sleep.
