Memetastic: This Date In Wikipedia

[serinde]

Wikipedia birthday meme ahoy...

Three events that took place on Feb 20:

* 1472 - Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, due to a defaulted dowry payment.
* 1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
* 1962 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth.

And two births (with extra bonus birth):

* 1942 - Phil Esposito, Canadian hockey player
* 1954 - Anthony Stewart Head, English actor
* 1967 - Kurt Cobain, American musician

And one death:

* 2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)

Comments

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Huh; the version I saw didn't have the 3/2/1 bit attached (not that I'd have followed it if it did; as it was I had to cut out Édith Piaf and a Pope from the short list).