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Look up your birthday without the year and list 3 cool events, 2 births and 1 death.

Events:
1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives".
1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street. (Come on. You knew I was going to use this one.)

Births:
1341 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1960 - Neil Gaiman, English writer

Death:
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)

Date: 2006-04-07 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fionnbharro.livejournal.com
Walt Disney was an FBI informant?

That's so.... Un-american!

Date: 2006-04-08 12:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madbaker.livejournal.com
With a straight face, tell me that Disneyland and the FBI don't share a lot of similarities. Domestic spying, behavior control, undisclosed budgets...

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