Wikimeme

Purloined from Newsbitch:

Instructions:

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 and one interesting death.
5. One holiday or observance (if any).
6. Tag 5 more people - Nah. Everyone who reads it should do this meme.

Right then. Let us begin.

January 26

Events:

1837 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1861 - The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1870 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.

Birthdays:

1880 - Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)
1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, American actress, comedian, and talk show host

Death:

1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)

Holiday/Observance:

Australia Day is Australia's official national day, January 26. It commemorates the landing of the First Fleet in Sydney Cove on that day in 1788.

1 Thoughts:

Blogger Avitable said...

I love Jenna Fisher.

I have watched her in Lollilove, the movie she directed, and in Slither, the movie her husband directed.

She is awesome.

Sorry about the comments. I may switch to Haloscan soon.

7/06/2006 3:30 PM  

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