10.29.2010

birthday meme...

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
5. List one interesting death.

My birthday is October 29.

EVENTS:
1) 1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

2) 1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

3) 1969 – October 29, 1969: the Supreme Court ruled that school districts must end segregation “now and hereafter".

BIRTHDAYS:
1) 1961 – Randy Jackson, American musician

2) 1948 – Kate Jackson, American actress

DEATH:
1618 – Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554)

3 comments:

The Gal Herself said...

Hey dawg, does sharing a bday with Randy Jackson explain your dual loves for AI and for keeping it real? Are you picking up what I'm putting down, dawg?

Unknown said...

Happy happy birthday!

Cat. said...

Happy belated birthday (here) and I will be revealing my triviality in about 10 days. ;-)