Is there a website that gives what happens on a certain date ?

fliston12 · 2006-05-06 11:53:39

Hi I have a relative with a birthday coming up soon and I want to give her some facts on famous people born on the same day and the average price of a pint/ price of a house / car etc .... in the 1940's! Is there such a site out there ? Cheers

06-05-2006 12:53PM

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fliston12

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Hi

I have a relative with a birthday coming up soon and I want to give her some facts on famous people born on the same day and the average price of a pint/ price of a house / car etc .... in the 1940's! Is there such a site out there ?

Cheers

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#2 06-05-2006 12:57PM

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Try http://www.wikipedia.org. Just type the date into the search bar.

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#3 06-05-2006 12:58PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_6th for example.

Mike.

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#4 06-05-2006 01:11PM

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/

Mainly news though. Not sure where you'd get consumer prices etc.

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#5 06-05-2006 05:27PM

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Ahah, its Maggie Thatcher day in the Falklands on my birthday, Jan 10th :eek: Hilarious!

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#6 06-05-2006 09:14PM

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lots of people killed on mine... coincidence???

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#7 06-05-2006 09:25PM

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Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote:

lots of people killed on mine... coincidence???

Probably.

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