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Everybody is doing the Wikipedia birthday meme, and I am a sheep!
The instructions:
- Go to Wikipedia.
- In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
- List three events that happened on your birthday.
- List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
- One holiday or observance (if any).
Events
- 1774 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1960 - Muhammad Ali wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.
- 1975 - In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
Yay! I was born the day they took Squeaky Fromme away.
Birthdays
- 1847 - Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
- 1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress
- 1946 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer Queen (d. 1991)
Death
- 1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
Festival!
- India - The birthdate of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.
