Monday, July 24, 2006

Another Interesting Exercise

From Sherry

Go to Wikipedia and type your birthday in the search box (not the year). Find 1 significant death, 2 significant births, an interesting event or two, and a holiday/observance.

Death

1970 - Kent State Victims - Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder

Births

1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)

1928 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician

Events

1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

Observance

Star Wars day, "May the 4th be with you" pun on "May the force be with you"

... Well, that was interesting...

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