It’s not my birthday
Posted on June 30, 2006 by Tito
but I’ll do this anyway, following Meggan’s lead
Instructions:
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. One holiday or observance (if any).
And the results are in….
3 Events
1825 – The Erie Canal opens.
1908 – Jack Johnson becomes the first African American heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.
1944 – The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is first publicly performed.
2 Birthdays & 1 Death
Born: 1891 – Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
Born: 1954 – Ozzie Smith, baseball player
Died: 1999 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (b. 1942)
1 Holiday
Boxing Day (Canada)
» Filed Under Time Travel and The Intergalactic
