meme about birthdates...

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 Look up your birthday on Wikipedia, and post 4 events and 4 births and 4 deaths.


For November 27th

EVENTS:

1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. 

1924 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000

1978 - In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.


BIRTHS

1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998) 

1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)

1955 - Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster 

1957 - Caroline Kennedy, American journalist 


DEATHS

1901 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831) 

1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) 

1988 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906) 

2007 - Robert Cade, American doctor and inventor of Gatorade (b. 1927)