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April 11, 2006
bandwagon birthday meme
Margaret did this, and it amused me.
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 this in your journal.
Three events:
1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1985 - Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson, is first published.
Two birthdays:
1836 - Sir William S. Gilbert, British dramatist (d. 1911)
(I like the synchronicity of the death of Sullivan on Margaret's birthday)
1928 - Mickey Mouse, Cartoon Mouse
(duh)
One death:
1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide) (b. 1931)
(sort of a cheater extra event)
Comments
See, we're *meant* to be G&S fans!
Posted by: Margar at April 12, 2006 9:53 PM