Apr 10, 2006 16:11
Go to Wikipedia . Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Three events
1. 1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue
2. 1963 - During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
3. 1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
Two birthdays
1. 1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
2. 1814 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
One death
1.1818 - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of Chicago