Wikipedia meme
Enter your birthday (without the year) into Wikipedia. List 3 neat facts, two births and one death (include the years) in your journal.
Jan. 17th
Neat facts:
1773 - Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.
1917 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
Births:
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American writer, inventor, publisher, and ambassador (d. 1790)
1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
Death:
1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
Jan. 17th
Neat facts:
1773 - Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.
1917 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
Births:
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American writer, inventor, publisher, and ambassador (d. 1790)
1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
Death:
1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)