Wiki Meme

Wednesday April 18, 2007 in meme |

From Breaking the Fourth Wall.

  • Go to Wikipedia and search for your birthday but leave out the year (mine is June 16th)
  • List 3 events, 2 births, 1 death and 1 holiday that happen on this day

Events

  1. 1487 Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses
  2. 1884 The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
  3. 1911 A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn

Births

  1. 1890 Stan Laurel
  2. 1962 Arnold Vosloo (actor, him in the recent Mummy films)

Death

  1. 1979 Nicholas Ray, American film director ( Rebel Without a Cause )

Holiday, and a literary one

  1. Bloomsday, in honour of Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce’s Ulysses set on 16 June, 1904.

Also I’m sure it was the night of June 16th 1816 that Mary Shelley had her dream that inspired Frankenstein?

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