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Apr 25, 2006 20:46

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, three births, three deaths, and up to three observances or holidays on your birthday in your journal.

For June 27:

Events:
1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1986 - The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States.

Births:
1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1930 - Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
1970 - Jim Edmonds, baseball player (AWESOME!)

Deaths:
1149 - Raymond of Antioch
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director
2004 - George Patton IV, American general

Observances:
Feast of St Cyril of Alexandria
National HIV Testing Day in United States
National Veterans' Day in the United Kingdom
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