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Aug 20, 2008 19:31

Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday

July 15

1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.

1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.

1870 - Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.

1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)

1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician (d. 1980)

1961 - Forest Whitaker, American actor

1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)

1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)

Japan - Third day of Obon feast period.
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