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Wikipedia Birthday Meme

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Aug. 16th, 2008 | 12:46 pm
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Borrowed from ginamak.

Go to Wikipedia and enter your date of birth. Then pick 4 events, 3 births, two deaths, and one holiday.

So, here's my take on August 10th:

Events:

• 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1792 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
• 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson.
• 1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.

Births:

• 1814 - Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890)
• 1874 - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
• 1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor

Deaths:

• 1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
• 2008 - Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor (b. 1942)

Holiday:

• United States - National S'mores Day.

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