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Wikipedia Meme
Shamus stumbled upon an interesting meme (at Tim Worstall's blog) relying upon Wikipedia's ridiculously comprehensive date pages:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your blog, including the year.

Like Shamus, I won't limit myself to the numbers above and will instead just list some things I think are interesting about September 13...

Facts

• 1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his David.
• 1609 - Henry Hudson reaches the river that will later be named after him - the Hudson River.
• 1922 - The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 136.4 °F (58 °C).

Births

• 1860 - John J. Pershing, American general (d. 1948)
• 1874 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born composer (d. 1951)
• 1916 - Roald Dahl, Welsh writer (d. 1990)
• 1977 - Fiona Apple, American singer

Deaths

• 1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)
• 1996 - Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (b. 1971)

This post is part of the Kaedrin Weblog. It's been categorized under Culture and was originally published in April 2006.

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