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celticdragonfly ([personal profile] celticdragonfly) wrote2006-04-06 06:12 pm
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birth day meme

Swiped from [livejournal.com profile] rolanni

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. However, [livejournal.com profile] rolanni did three of each, and being Welsh, I shall follow suit.

Notable Events

1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1929 - The Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.

Births

1737 - Thomas Paine, American patriot (d. 1809)
1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
1880 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)

Deaths

1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar;reigned from (1582-1589)
1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)

it's apparently a rough day for Russian tsars!