Wiki Birthdate Meme

[erikred]

Seen first in bookishfellow's LJ:

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

January 17

Events:
1950 - The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
1994 - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
1995 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake (known as "the Great Hanshin earthquake" hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,433 people.

Births:
1463 - Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
1706 - Benjamin Franklin
1899 - Al Capone

Deaths:
1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
1861 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1964 - T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)

In short, a good day for scholars and robbers, not a good day for natural disasters or adventurers, or T.H. White.

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[abazureonna.livejournal.com]

November 29

events:
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1890 - The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
1972 - Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.

births:
1895 - Busby Berkeley, American film director, and choreographer (d. 1976)
1915 - Billy Strayhorn, American musician and composer (d. 1967)
1982 - Krystal Steal, American pornographic actress

deaths:
1378 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)
1986 - Cary Grant, British-born American actor (b. 1904)
2001 - George Harrison, British singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)

[erikred.livejournal.com]

See, I knew there was a Meiji connection there somewhere.

[annaland.livejournal.com]

March 31

Events:
307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
1930 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next forty years.
1967 - Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar for the first time at London's Astoria Theatre. He is sent to the hospital afterwards for burns on his hands.

Births:
1596 - René Descartes, French mathematician (d. 1650)
1927 - César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993)
1934 - Shirley Jones, American singer and actress

Deaths:

1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (b. 1121)
1727 - Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
1980 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)

[erikred.livejournal.com]

I wonder how much of the tune he got out of the guitar before it burnt too far....