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Earlier this month there was a Wikipedia Birthday Meme running around that, given its subject and the proximity to my own birthday, I figured I’d just hold off on playing with for a bit.
So, three weeks or so after everyone else, it’s my turn!
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
- Three ‘neat things’:
- 1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 1959 – The first Grammy Awards are announced.
- 1971 – All Things Considered, National Public Radio’s flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
- Two births:
- 1933 – James Brown, American singer
- 1959 – David Ball, British musician (Soft Cell)
- One death:
- 1758 – Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
“Coriolan Overture Op. 62” by Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Jose Serebrier) from the album 200 Greatest Classics, Vol. 14 (1995, 8:18).