That Birthday Meme
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Look up your birthday on Wikipedia. Choose 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday/observance.
Events:
64 - Great fire of Rome
1870 - The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
1968 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
1976 - Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Births:
1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English author
1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
Deaths:
1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist
1899 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer
Holiday/observance:
Saint Theneva
Look up your birthday on Wikipedia. Choose 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday/observance.
Events:
64 - Great fire of Rome
1870 - The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
1968 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
1976 - Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Births:
1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English author
1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
Deaths:
1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist
1899 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer
Holiday/observance:
Saint Theneva
