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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.
I was born 19th of July 1977... Here goes:
3 facts:
- 64 - Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
- 1333 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill - The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
- 1553 - Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days of reign.
2 births:
- 1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer (d. 1972)
- 1976 - Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
1 death:
- 1543 - Mary Boleyn, English sister of Anne Boleyn (b. c. 1499)
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