Wiki Interesting

Go to “Wikipedia”:http://wikipedia.org/ and type in your birthday and month (not year).
List:
3 events that happened on your birthday (I was carried away and listed 5).
2 important births
1 interesting death.
Post this in your journal.

Three (Five) Events:

* 1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
* 1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
* 1990 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.
* 1991 – Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev is overthrown by a coup. This leads to the fall of the Soviet Union
* 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

Two Births:

* 1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
* 1921 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)

One Death:

* 1977 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)

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