Friday, April 07, 2006
Wikimeme
I don't normally do memes but this one appeals to the historian in me. Found via Will and Ryan:
Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/). Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Birth date: 30 January
Events:
Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/). Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Birth date: 30 January
Events:
- 1649 - King Charles I of England is beheaded.
- 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so hugely greater than anything previously built that it is considered the world's first modern suspension bridge.
- 1972 - Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom British Paratroopers kill fourteen Roman Catholic civil rights /anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland- Bloody Sunday (1972)
Births:
- 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd. President of the United States (d. 1945)
- 1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
Death:
- 1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
