fatima | this is the last meme for a while, I swear

From

igrab: Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths, 3 holidays, and tag 3 friends.

December 05

Events
1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends.
1955 – E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Births
1901 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer
1901 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel laureate (I'm not sure about that one... :P)
1968 – Margaret Cho, American comedian and actress

Deaths
1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
1870 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (b. 1802)
1926 – Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840)

Holidays
Thailand - The King's Birthday
The UK (and others) – Saint Nicholas Eve
Feast Day of Saint Abercius

Summary: Pretty cool on the events, okay on the births, awesome on the deaths (what), kinda bombed the holidays. Thus, as Seinfeld illustrates with the Law of 20 Dollars, it all evens out in the end.

Tagged:

asukajude,

cipher0099,

rosalui, and anybody else who might be interested. :)