hm...who knew
Go to Wikipedia. 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.
August 12 - first I would like to say it happens to the the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower...apparently
30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
1851 - Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine
1908 - First Model T Ford built
Births
1962 - Miss Cleo, American psychic
1975 - Casey Affleck, American actor
1925 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)
1925 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)
Death
1689 - Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
1948 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
1988 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (b. 1895)
August 12 - first I would like to say it happens to the the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower...apparently
30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
1851 - Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine
1908 - First Model T Ford built
Births
1962 - Miss Cleo, American psychic
1975 - Casey Affleck, American actor
1925 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)
1925 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)
Death
1689 - Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
1948 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
1988 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (b. 1895)