via Adam.
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:
1883 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam
1908 - First Model T Ford built
1952 - The Night of Murdered Poets - Prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow
Births:
1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits)
1962 - Miss Cleo, American psychic
Deaths:
1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
Holidays:
Zimbabwe - Defence Force Day
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June 29th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
January 22
Events:
1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand.
1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous “1984″ television commercial.
2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects.
Births
1959 - Linda Blair, American actress
1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor
Deaths
1994 - Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
Holiday/Observance
New Zealand - Wellington Anniversary.
June 29th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Events
1911 - The New York Public Library opened.
1940 - Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
2000 - Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
Births
1941 - Bob Dylan
1988 - Billy Gilman, American singer
Death
1991 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (b. 1944)
Holiday/Observance
Canada: Victoria Day, on this date or the Monday before it. (Yay! Not that I had a job when this came around this year, but I kind of got the day off.)
Always fun to see the things that happen on your birthday.