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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

New Meme...

Yippe! I got a *new* meme and it's not from evan.

It's from one of adj's friends( in the annex)

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Events:
1807 - A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1856 - Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas").
1990 - North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen. [ and thus my b'day is also Republic of Yemen National Day)

Births:
(picked the two that I already knew don't ya know)
1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930)
1907 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (d. 1989)

Death
1885 - Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)

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