Wikipedia Birthday Meme
First, what is your birthday (month/day)? November 22
Now, go to Wikipedia and list:
Four historic events: Okay, the first one I don't have to look up. When a national tragedy occurs on your birthday, you never forget.
• JFK Assassination (1963)
• The first commercial transpacific flight (1935)
• FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss defeating Japan (1943)
• NASA launches the Space Shuttle Discovery (1989)
Three births
• First Lady, and Presidential Mom, Abigail Adams (1744)
• French President Charles deGaulle (1890)
• Singer/songwriter Hoagy Carmichael (1899)
Two deaths
• Cosmetics mogul Mary Kay (2001)
• Officer JD Tippit (1963). He's the Dallas cop who stopped Lee Harvey Oswald within an hour of the assassination and was shot himself. Tippit was a war veteran with more than a decade on the force. He left a wife and three children. I'm spotlighting him because conspiracy theorists have recklessly ruined his reputation. Here's the commemorative badge Dallas police have worn in his honor.
One holiday or observance
Good Spouses Day in Japan
