Wikipedia is Your Friend

An interesting-- yet ultimately time-wasting (heh)-- meme I picked up from gabe:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year).

List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

November 30

Three neat facts

1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.

1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes throuhgh a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her livingt room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.

1979 - Pink Floyd release the album The Wall.

Two births

1667 — Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d.1745) Or we can also go with 1835 — Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. 1910) .

1863 — Andres Bonifacio, head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK) (d. 1897)*

*He's the reason why my birthday is a holiday.

One death

1900 — Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)

Now that's a date to crash and burn for this writer...