Wikimeme

[jackofallgeeks]

Yoinked from dikaiosunh.

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Facts
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Colonel Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.
1869 - The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
1908 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, USA).

Births
1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln
1957 - Sid Vicious, English bassist

Death
1863 - Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"English bassist?" That's all they say about Sid? Shameful.

[dikaiosunh.livejournal.com]

Oops. Wasn't logged in.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing, but yeah; they have (sex pistols) after the entry to denote his band, which I left off, but that's it. The actual article on him is a bit beefier, of course.