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Apr 16, 2006 21:45

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.

Events:

1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.

1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

2002 - 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany.

Births:

121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)

1765 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (d. 1815)

Deaths:

1489 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)

1969 - Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist (b. 1883)
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