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title: 'You were there [Wikipedia]'
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markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/you-were-there-wikipedia.md'
date: '2006-04-08'
description: 'Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birthdate (just month and date, no year), post three events, two births and one death: Events: 1595 – William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed. 1845 – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mir…'
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# You were there [Wikipedia]

## [You were there \[Wikipedia\]](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/you-were-there-wikipedia)

    8th Apr 2006   [nostalgia](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:nostalgia#body-wrapper)  

**Go to Wikipedia, enter in your [birthdate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_29) (just month and date, no year), post three events, two births and one death:**

**Events:**

- 1595 – William Shakespeare’s play [Romeo and Juliet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet) is probably first performed.
- 1845 – [The Raven](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven_(Edgar_Allan_Poe)) by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
- 1964 – [Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove) is released in the US.

    **Births:**
- 1737 – [Thomas Paine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine), American patriot (d. 1809)
- 1860 – [Anton Chekhov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov), Russian writer (d. 1904)

    **Deaths:**
- 1963 – [Robert Frost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost), American poet (b. 1874)

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