Tempest in a Teapot

(stolen from hauself)

Wikipedia/Birthday Game
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. Choose three events that happened on your birthday.
4. Choose two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. Post it.

APRIL 26 –

3 events.
1. 1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
2. 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. (you may have seen Picasso’s painting)
3. 1991 – Seventy (!!!) tornadoes break out in the central U.S.

2 births.
1. Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, 121
2. William Shakespeare, English writer, 1564 (baptized)

[I also share a birthday with IM Pei, Carol Burnett and Jet Li.]

1 death.
1. Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian, 1989.

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