That Wiki meme

[aceofkittens]

Done by everyone else, most recently by birthday girl aerinys! :)

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Three Neat Facts:

1881 - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory between the Earp Brothers and McLaury Brothers

1918 - Czechoslovakia gains its independence from Austria-Hungary. ("Let us drink to Slovak freedom from Czech oppression!")

1919 - Prohibition begins: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. (Oh, the irony! Considering I am a raging alcoholic!)

Two Births:

1818 (O.S.) - Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)

1955 - Bill Gates, American software pioneer

One Death:

1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)

Comments

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

I did this, and I couldn't find one thing that I thought was truly INTERESTING about my birthday. I need a new one.

[buttler.livejournal.com]

i need to read more turgenev. that's what i learn from this. i quite liked fathers & sons.

[saladbar.livejournal.com]

Mine is nothing but earthquakes that kill thousands and thousands of people.

[trollpete.livejournal.com]

I had cool events, but my co-birthday people are bastards.