Thursday, July 20, 2006

Wikipedia Meme

Instructions:
1. Go to Wikipedia.org
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. One holiday or observance (if any).

Events:

1972 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.

1975 - As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign ascession treaties gaining entrance into the European Union.

Two Birthdays:

1908 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)

1969 - Renée Zellweger, American actress

Interesting Death:

1995 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)

One holiday or observance:

Easter Sunday - 1886, 1943, 2038. In the Gregorian Calendar 25th April is the latest date on which Easter Sunday can fall (22nd March is the earliest).

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