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Birthday: May 25
Three events:
1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just two blocks away from his New York home, prompting an International search for the child, and causing President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
2001 – 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Three births:
1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher
1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor
1976 – Ethan Suplee, American actor (Frankie from Boy Meets World I'm amused)
Three deaths:
1919 – Madame C. J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon
1965 – Sonny Boy Williamson, (Alec "Rice" Miller) American Blues singer, songwriter, and musician
2005 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician
Three holidays:
African Union: Africa Day
Geek Pride Day (*laughs*)
Douglas Adams fans: Towel Day
Three friends to tag:
matalinolukaret
crackedbuthappy
annella
Birthday: May 25
Three events:
1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just two blocks away from his New York home, prompting an International search for the child, and causing President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
2001 – 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Three births:
1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher
1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor
1976 – Ethan Suplee, American actor (Frankie from Boy Meets World I'm amused)
Three deaths:
1919 – Madame C. J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon
1965 – Sonny Boy Williamson, (Alec "Rice" Miller) American Blues singer, songwriter, and musician
2005 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician
Three holidays:
African Union: Africa Day
Geek Pride Day (*laughs*)
Douglas Adams fans: Towel Day
Three friends to tag:
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