Wendy D. Smith

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Boredom leads to this

After reading Noel’s post, I decided to go to www.wikipedia.org myself and see what has happened on my birthday. Here’s what I found (just a few):

Events:
1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
1804 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1914 - Babe Ruth debuts in Major league baseball.

Births:
1767 - John Quincy Adams, President of the United States (d. 1848)
1981 - Andre Johnson, NFL Wide Receiver
1975 - Lil' Kim, American rapper

Deaths:
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel) (b. 1757)
1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (b. 1907)
1959 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882

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