Wikipedia Meme
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year:
Events
1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel
1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb
1960 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation
Births
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1881 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1955)
Deaths
1195 - Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
Events
1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel
1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb
1960 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation
Births
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1881 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1955)
Deaths
1195 - Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)