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Birthday meme.
From 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.
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Can you sleep late tomorrow?