wikipedia birthday meme

[sarahmichelef]

From chrisilin
"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."

Neat Facts:

1. 1879 - The Pirates of Penzance is first performed (Paignton, Devon, England).
   
2. 1919 - Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
   
3. 1922 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
   

Births: do I have to pick two? There are so many amusing ones!!!
For my official two, I pick:

1. 1942 - Michael Nesmith, American singer and musician (The Monkees)
   
2. 1945 - Davy Jones, English singer (The Monkees)
   

(Other notable ones from the 20th century: Dmitri Kabalevsky, Bo Diddley, Sandy Koufax, Matt Lauer, Tracey Ullman, Douglas Coupland, Ben Johnson, Jamiroquai, Kerry Collins, Tiger Woods, Tyrese, Eliza Dushku, LeBron James. Apparently late March/early April is a popular time for nookie.)

Death:

1. 1460 - Richard, Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (b. 1411)

Comments

[irihs.livejournal.com]

OMG! Forget the meme, I just discovered that I have the same birthday as Elene Gedevanishvili! That's amazingly awesome, and totally makes up for Dustin Diamond, who shares a birth date with me.

[irihs.livejournal.com]

Okay, Wikipedia also says it's Jesus' birthday, according to some calendar. That might just push the coolest Georgian figure skater, ever, down a place on the coolness list. Maybe.

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

gymnast... figure skater... same diff, right? ;^)

What I MEANT to say was that Jesus is way cooler than either a figure skater OR 1/2 of the Monkees.

[studentnurse.livejournal.com]

Sigh... Wikipedia claims what I have always suspected, that Kurt Cobain died on my 15th birthday.

[amojojo.livejournal.com]

I think it's probably Jay Kay who shares your birthday, unless the entirety of Jamiroquai happened to be born on the same day.... :)

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I wasn't counting on my whole FL knowing what I didn't know. Fine. Jay Kay shares my birthday.