... and speaking of birthdays
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technocowboy
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, three births, three deaths, and up to three observances or holidays on your birthday in your journal.
Events
1858 - Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois ("A house divided against itself cannot stand...")
1972 - Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building.
2003 - The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.
Births
1713 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hamphsire
1829 - Geronimo, Apache leader
1971 - Tupac Amaru Shakur, rap musician
Deaths
1959 - George Reeves, American actor
1977 - Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist
1996 - Curt Swan, American comic book artist
(Interestingly, George Reeves is best known for playing Superman, the comic book character Curt Swan is best known for drawing.)
Observances
South Africa - Youth Day
Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint John Regis, patron of medical social workers
Bloomsday, in honour of Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses (which is set on June 16, 1904).
technocowboyGo to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, three births, three deaths, and up to three observances or holidays on your birthday in your journal.
Events
1858 - Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois ("A house divided against itself cannot stand...")
1972 - Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building.
2003 - The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.
Births
1713 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hamphsire
1829 - Geronimo, Apache leader
1971 - Tupac Amaru Shakur, rap musician
Deaths
1959 - George Reeves, American actor
1977 - Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist
1996 - Curt Swan, American comic book artist
(Interestingly, George Reeves is best known for playing Superman, the comic book character Curt Swan is best known for drawing.)
Observances
South Africa - Youth Day
Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint John Regis, patron of medical social workers
Bloomsday, in honour of Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses (which is set on June 16, 1904).
