in a town known as wheeling, west virginia, rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand

[primroseburrows]

Meme from taradiane:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year).

List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

I did four, three, and two because I couldn't decide between the last two births and was tired of wibbling and because I'm a bleeding rebel.

FACTS

1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. (He dies on June 6). Yep, we lost one who could have changed the world.

1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.

1981 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems.



BIRTHS

1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
1919 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)
1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor (Yeah, that's right. Marky Mark was born on my tenth birthday. Deal with it.
1980 - Draco Malfoy, heir to the Malfoy Fortune.



DEATHS

2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
2004 - Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States (b. 1911)


Trivia!

If anyone knows what my current music has to do with the content of the meme, I'll write something for you. Something small. More than a sentence, less than a book. Yeah, I know. You're all overcome with joy.

Comments

[moony]

Pat Garrett arrested Billy the Kid. :D

[eltonroo.livejournal.com]

I got the Pat Garrett connection to Billy the Kid. In fact didn't Bob Dylan have an album called "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"?
Anyways I love that Billy Joel song -- especially the live version on "Songs from the Attic". I got to see Billy Joel live in the 80s and it was one of the best concerts I have ever seen. Unfortunately he has not aged as gracefully as Elton or remained as musically relevant.