JUST SOME SILLINESS
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This has been going around over on LJ, I don't know if I have seen it here but I thought I would try it.
List events, births and deaths that happened on your birthday. Wikipedia is the source of the information. Kinda cool thing to fool with.
AUGUST 7
EVENTS
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
1959 - Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida
1964 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1973 - NBC airs the final day of the Watergate hearings on U.S. daytime television.
BIRTHS
1400 - Guillaume Dufay, French composer (d. 1474)
1860 - Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
1942 - Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
DEATHS
461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
1957 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
1834 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
written at 8:41 a.m.
May 13, 2006
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