October 23
I got too lazy to decide which to cut.
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.
4004 BC - On the preceding eve of this day (in the proleptic Julian calendar), the universe was created, according to the archbishop James Ussher in his Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar.
42 BC - Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. He commits suicide.
1641 - Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - anniversary commemorated by Irish Protestants for over 200 years
1707 - The first Parliament of Great Britain meets
1911 - First use of aircraft in war: an Italian pilot takes off from Libya to survey Turkish lines during the Turco-Italian War.
1915 - Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march up Fifth Avenue to demand the right to vote.
1929 - The first transcontinental air service begins from New York City to Los Angeles.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow
1958 - Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of comic strip characters The Smurfs.
1996 - The civil trial of former American football player O.J. Simpson opens in Santa Monica, California.
2001 - iPod released in USA.
BIRTHS:
1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
1925 - Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
1936 - Philip Kaufman, American film director
1940 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer
1942 - Michael Crichton, American writer
1949 - Nick Tosches, American writer
1956 - Dwight Yoakam, American singer, songwriter, and actor
1959 - Sam Raimi, American film director and producer
1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
DEATHS:
42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
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.
4004 BC - On the preceding eve of this day (in the proleptic Julian calendar), the universe was created, according to the archbishop James Ussher in his Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar.
42 BC - Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. He commits suicide.
1641 - Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - anniversary commemorated by Irish Protestants for over 200 years
1707 - The first Parliament of Great Britain meets
1911 - First use of aircraft in war: an Italian pilot takes off from Libya to survey Turkish lines during the Turco-Italian War.
1915 - Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march up Fifth Avenue to demand the right to vote.
1929 - The first transcontinental air service begins from New York City to Los Angeles.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow
1958 - Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of comic strip characters The Smurfs.
1996 - The civil trial of former American football player O.J. Simpson opens in Santa Monica, California.
2001 - iPod released in USA.
BIRTHS:
1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
1925 - Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
1936 - Philip Kaufman, American film director
1940 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer
1942 - Michael Crichton, American writer
1949 - Nick Tosches, American writer
1956 - Dwight Yoakam, American singer, songwriter, and actor
1959 - Sam Raimi, American film director and producer
1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
DEATHS:
42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)