7.05.2006

Wiki fun.

1. Go to Wikipedia.
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

1) 1773 - American Revolution: Boston Tea Party - Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
2) 1942 - Holocaust: Porajmos - Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination should be deported to Auschwitz.
3) 2005 - The last scheduled edition of US radio program The Howard Stern Show is broadcast on terrestrial radio.

Birthdays

1) 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
2) 1928 - Philip K. Dick, American writer (d. 1982)

Death

2003 - Gary Stewart, American musician, singer and songwriter
(suicide) (b. 1945)

Holiday Observances

* R.C. Saints - O Sapientia ; Adelaide of Italy
* Bahrain - National Day
* Bangladesh - Victory Day
* Kazakhstan - Independence Day
* Nepal - Constitution Day (To be confirmed)
* South Africa - Day of Reconciliation