Apr 08, 2006 22:36
You've seen this elsewhere I'm sure.
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.
January 14
Events
1501 Martin Luther, at age 17, enters the University of Erfurt.
1690 The clarinet is invented in Nuremburg, Germany.
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
Births
1741 - Benedict Arnold, American general and traitor (d. 1801).
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, missionary, and musician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1965).
Deaths
1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899).