Apr 11, 2006 15:28
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List one death, ten births and three neat facts in your journal, including the year.
How cool am I!?!?
January 1
Death:
1782 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer
Births:
1431 - Pope Alexander VI
1638 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan
1735 - Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot
1752 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress
1883 - Gabrielle Chanel, French Designer
1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director
1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
1922 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer
1958 - Grandmaster Flash, Barbados-born musician
1978 - Jared Fogle, American personality (Mhmm, that's the fat guy who lost weight eating Subway)
Events:
404 - Last known gladiator competition in Rome takes place.
630 - Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly.
1934 - Alcatraz Island becomes a U.S. federal prison.