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May 3rd, 2006

Your Birth Date

(from [info]weathermanphil)

Visit the Wikipedia website and perform a search for your birth date without the year. Then post in your journal 3 interesting events, 2 births, and 1 death that occurred on your birth date. Here are the ones I chose:

September 11

Events
(these are eerily related)
1. 1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island.
2. 1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
3. 2001 - The September 11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and crash a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 are killed.

Births
1. 1885 - D.H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
2. 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer

Deaths
(besides all those who lost their lives on 9/11/2001)
1. 1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)