Apr 07, 2006 13:26
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
EVENTS:
1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1985 - Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson, is first published.
1978 - Jonestown mass suicide: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple in a mass murder-suicide; 913 die, including 276 children.
BIRTHS:
1836 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and founder of criminology (d. 1909)
1928 - Mickey Mouse, Cartoon Mouse
DEATHS:
1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide) (b. 1931)