wikipedia birthday meme

// May 16th, 2006 // Intarweb

Mooooom, Kyle keeps meme-tagging me. Make him stop!

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:

monkeemind says:

17 May 2006 at 07:13

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
Daily C » Blog Archive » Wikipedia Meme says:

17 May 2006 at 19:40

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