Meme
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births, and one death in your journal, including the year.- but so many neat things happened on my birthday, I'm listing my favourites!
EDIT: My birthday is 29th September.
Events
1829 - London's reorganized police force, the Metropolitan Police, becomes the first official police department in the world.
1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.
1996 - Super Mario 64, a revolutionary platformer game for the Nintendo 64, is released in the United States.
2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
Births
2 BC - Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem of Judea. (Luke 2:1-7)
1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
1920 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Ian McShane, British actor
1956 - Sebastian Coe, British athlete
Deaths
1902 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
Hehe cool.
And I'm back home in Cardiff, so dial-up is back...yay.
EDIT: My birthday is 29th September.
Events
1829 - London's reorganized police force, the Metropolitan Police, becomes the first official police department in the world.
1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.
1996 - Super Mario 64, a revolutionary platformer game for the Nintendo 64, is released in the United States.
2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
Births
2 BC - Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem of Judea. (Luke 2:1-7)
1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
1920 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Ian McShane, British actor
1956 - Sebastian Coe, British athlete
Deaths
1902 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
Hehe cool.
And I'm back home in Cardiff, so dial-up is back...yay.