Birth date meme:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
September 12
1213 -
Albigensian Crusade:
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester defeats
Peter II of Aragon, the king of
Aragon at the
Battle of Muret.
1609 -
Henry Hudson discovers the
Hudson River.
1953 -
John F. Kennedy marries
Jackie Bouvier.
1974 -
Emperor Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia, '
Messiah' of the
Rastafari movement, is deposed following a
military coup by the
Derg.
[I had to put four cause A) Albigensian Crusade's was really fun history! and B) RASTAFARIANS!!! HELLO!!!!
Births
1575 -
Henry Hudson, English explorer. (So that means he discovered the Hudson River on his 34th birthday!!!)
1966 -
Ben Folds, American musician.
Deaths
2003 -
Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b.
1932).
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