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Apr. 6th, 2006 10:06 pmI kinda like this meme:
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.
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
1732 (N.S.) born - George Washington, first President of the United States
1968 - born - Jeri Ryan, American actress
(it was between Jeri and 1982 - Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress - but I figured the geeks would appreciate Jeri more. ... Or would they.... ?)
1680 - died - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress
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.
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
1732 (N.S.) born - George Washington, first President of the United States
1968 - born - Jeri Ryan, American actress
(it was between Jeri and 1982 - Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress - but I figured the geeks would appreciate Jeri more. ... Or would they.... ?)
1680 - died - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress
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Date: 2006-04-07 02:15 am (UTC)True story: she's a competitive skeet shooter. On her first day on the set of ST, she was handling a phaser rifle as if it were real. The director had to take her aside to tell her that phaser rifles don't have recoil.
She was disappointed to hear it. :D
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Date: 2006-04-07 02:16 am (UTC)I win.
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Date: 2006-04-07 12:38 pm (UTC)1431 - Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government.
1905 - According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
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1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
1944 - Jimmy Page, English guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
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1939 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (b. 1880)