WikiBirthday Meme
Apr. 9th, 2006 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athelindYou know the drill. Look up your birthday on Wikipedia, list three or more interesting events, two or more births, and one death.
Events
1883 - The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1939 - The word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1953 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; formal announcement April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2).
1983 - The final episode of M*A*S*H is broadcast in the USA, becoming the most watched television episode in history, with 106-125 million viewers in the U.S. (estimate varies by source).
(I've ommitted the slaughters, disasters, political missteps, and atrocities that took place on my birthday, not because I consider them less important, but because I'm trying to be less negative.)
Births
1901 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (d. 1994)
1907 - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon)
1923 - Charles Durning, American actor
1930 - Gavin MacLeod, American actor (Carl Kolchak! How cool is that?)
1970 - Lemony Snicket, American writer
Deaths
1977 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)
1978 - Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)
1985 - David Byron, British singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
Events
(I've ommitted the slaughters, disasters, political missteps, and atrocities that took place on my birthday, not because I consider them less important, but because I'm trying to be less negative.)
Births
Deaths
