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Xaq ([personal profile] xaq_the_aereon) wrote2006-04-07 08:34 am

Wikipedia meme

Shamelessly chain-ganked from [livejournal.com profile] kjorteo

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

EVENTS:

1777 - The United States Congress passes a resolution that services of Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."

1941 - Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question.
(...And you thought YOU had some rough ones, Kj. ;.; )

1961 - At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain.

BIRTHS:

1962 - Wesley Snipes, American actor

1980 - Harry Potter, fictional protagonist of J.K. Rowling's series Harry Potter
(GAAAGH!!! As if I didn't have ENOUGH in common with him to merit a few thousand jokes!)

DEATH:

1099 - El Cid, Spanish warrior (b. 1044)