This is just way too interesting! Go to Wikipedia (
http://www.wikipedia.org/). Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List three important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
**Events**
-399 BC - The philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death.
-1903 - Morris Michtom and his wife Rose introduce the first teddy bear in America.
-1995 - Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer
systems.
**Birthdays**
-1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
-1954 - Matt Groening, American cartoonist
-1964 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (d. 1997) (this one hurt to find out, I was and still am a huge fan of his, and his
death really stunned me and upset me)
**Death**
2002 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963) (He had played Ares on Xena:Warrior Princess