Tuesday, April 11, 2006

wikiMeme

Found in numerous journals/blogs, SBC's being first as I recall...

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

July 6

Events

  • 1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
  • 1917 - World War I: Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt.
  • 1944 - The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Births
  • 1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, fourteenth Dalai Lama, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
  • 1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
Death
  • 1932 - Kenneth Grahame, English children's author (b. 1859)