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Apr 08, 2006 10:49

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.

Fact1:
1910 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.

Fact2:
1942 - World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.

Fact3:
1979 - In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails at Three Mile Island, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.

Birth1: 1496 - Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)
Birth2: 1522 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
Birth3: 1971 - Mr. Cheeks, American rapper (lol)

Death1: 1285 - Pope Martin IV
Death2: 1941 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
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