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Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
Birthday: June 8
Events:
793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known (Lindisfarne Gospels!) (also, [sic]).
1984 - Homosexuality is decriminalised in the state of New South Wales, Australia (gay sex!).
2004 - Major Wikipedia database crash (self-criticism!).
1949 bonus double - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published & Red Scare: Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members (irony!).
Births:
1916 - Francis Crick, English microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 - Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
Death:
1505 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
Birthday: June 8
Events:
793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known (Lindisfarne Gospels!) (also, [sic]).
1984 - Homosexuality is decriminalised in the state of New South Wales, Australia (gay sex!).
2004 - Major Wikipedia database crash (self-criticism!).
1949 bonus double - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published & Red Scare: Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members (irony!).
Births:
1916 - Francis Crick, English microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 - Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
Death:
1505 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)