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How it goes: 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.... 4 is a better number than 3, so I'm picking 4 of each :-)
Los hechos
1886 - First trainload of oranges left Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
1918 - Tarzan of the Apes, the first movie featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan character, is released.
1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangster rivals of Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
1980 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from the CBS Evening News.
Los nacimientos
1817 - Frederick Douglas adopted as his birthday (d. 1895)
1894 - Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)
1972 - Drew Bledsoe, American football player
1972 - Rob Thomas, American musician
Los muertos
1523 - Pope Adrian VI
1891 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)
1989 - James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
2003 - Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
and these are clearly the most fun so I'm adding them... holidays/observances
Denmark - Fastelavn. Children exchange cards knowns as gækkebrev.
Mexico - Day of National Mourning (1831).
Arizona - Admission Day (1912).
Oregon - Admission Day (1859).
Western World - Valentine's Day.
Iraq - 'Communist Martyrs Day' celebrated by Iraqi Communist Party.
Los hechos
1886 - First trainload of oranges left Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
1918 - Tarzan of the Apes, the first movie featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan character, is released.
1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangster rivals of Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
1980 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from the CBS Evening News.
Los nacimientos
1817 - Frederick Douglas adopted as his birthday (d. 1895)
1894 - Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)
1972 - Drew Bledsoe, American football player
1972 - Rob Thomas, American musician
Los muertos
1523 - Pope Adrian VI
1891 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)
1989 - James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
2003 - Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
and these are clearly the most fun so I'm adding them... holidays/observances
Denmark - Fastelavn. Children exchange cards knowns as gækkebrev.
Mexico - Day of National Mourning (1831).
Arizona - Admission Day (1912).
Oregon - Admission Day (1859).
Western World - Valentine's Day.
Iraq - 'Communist Martyrs Day' celebrated by Iraqi Communist Party.