evolution

Okay, I’ll play:

Instructions:
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three important events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two interesting birthdays and one interesting death.
5. List one holiday or observance (if none, make one up).

My birthday is October 14.

Three important events:

1. 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
2. 1066 — The Battle of Hastings. In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England.
3. 1947 — Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.

There were many to choose from. Two birthdays and one death:

1. (Born 1890) Dwight D. Eisenhower, Kansan, World War II general, and President.
2. (Born 1927) Roger Moore, British actor, known for playing in several “James Bond” movies.
3. (Died 1944) Nazi Germany’s Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox,” suicide by cyanide poisoning at Hitler’s order.

The holiday: World Organ Donation Day.

[inherited from: TFK.]

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