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Found outside the McKim Building of the Boston Public Library.
I've been tagged by my good friend daisies at "Pluck the Petal", and now I'm tagging YOU! Here's what you must do:
1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday Month and day only.
2. List 3 Events that occurred that day.
3. List 2 important Birth days.
4. List 1 Death.
5. List a Holiday or Observance. (if any)
6. Tag 5 other bloggers.
I'm not sure how I'm going to do #6, but I hope other people do this too! Here's some interesting stuff that happened to happen on the same date (May 29) that I was born:
Events:
In 1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris (and a riot ensued).
In 1919 - Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
In # 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's 39th birthday.
Births:
Bob Hope was born in 1903.
John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917.
In 1997 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (drowned) (b. 1966)
Holiday/Observance:
In the Bahá'í Faith, it's the Ascension of Bahá'u'llah
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Have a great weekend, everyone!