An interesting meme comes via Will Howells’ blog.
You need to go to Wikipedia. Type in your birth date (but not the year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post the results on your blog.
So here’s my effort:
Birthdate: June 2.
Events:
- 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
- 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
- 1997 - Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Births:
- 1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
- 1857 - Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
Death:
- 1990 - Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
