wikipedia meme

Gakked from and , among others. I think I’ve done this before, so I tried to pick ones I didn’t know about. :)

Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/). Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.

Events:
1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1533 – Henry VIII of England’s new wife, Anne Boleyn, is crowned as queen.
1909 – The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world’s fair opens in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Births:
1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
1801 – Brigham Young, Mormon church leader and American western settler (d. 1877)

Deaths:
1968 – Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)