09 April 2006

December 31

The game is to find 3 events, 2 births, and 1 death that happened on your birthday. "Gakked" from John & Liza.

Events

1946 - President Harry Truman proclaims the end of hostilities in WWII (The Big One).

1862 - President Lincoln signs an act admitting West Virginia to the Union.

1600 - Queen Elizabeth II grants the Royal charter of the British East India Company.

Births

1738 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis and British General (died 1805).

1572 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (died 1617).

Death

1460 - Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (executed along with Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Edmund, Earl of Rutland - Neville's brother and nephew - after the Battle Wakefield).

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The truly perspicacious, or, more likely, those who have been unable to block out my incessent chatter, will notice that one of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn't belong. All but one relates to the things I prattle about at greath length, given the opportunity. Can you guess which thing is not like the others before I finish this song?

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