B-day

Apr 07, 2006 15:10

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.

Facts
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech -"give me liberty or give me death" at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia

1839 - First recorded use of "OK" as an abbreviation for "oll korrect" in the Boston Morning Post

1989 - A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 400,000 miles.

Births
1973 - Jason Kidd, American basketball player
1951 - Ron Jaworski, American NFL quarterback, ESPN analyst

Death
1555 - Pope Julius III, (b. 1487)

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