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Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List five neat facts, two births and two death in your journal, including the year.
Neat facts:
1. 1698 - In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men, except priests and peasants, are required to pay the tax of one hundred rubles a year for those above the lowest class, one kopek each for commoners.
2. 1793 - In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution, initiating the Reign of Terror.
3. 1862 - American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
4. 1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
5.1984 - Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
Births:
1. 1847 - Jesse James
2. 1946 - Freddie Mercury
Deaths:
1. 1877 - Crazy Horse, Sioux chief
2. 1997 - Mother Teresa
I would just like to say that my birthdate fucking rules. I mean look how many important things happened i.e. the taxing of facial hair -I challenge all of you to beat that.