Mooooom, Kyle keeps meme-tagging me. Make him stop!
- Go to Wikipedia.
- In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
- List three events that happened on your birthday.
- List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
- Post it.
My birthday is 23 February.
Three events:
- 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.
- 1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
- 1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33, closing above 4,000 for the first time.
Two important births:
- 1633 - Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703)
- 1868 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)
One interesting death:
- 1821 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
my events for august 6:
1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.
1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
Birthdays:
1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (d. 1989)
1927 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
Deaths:
2004 - Rick James, bitch
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