Fun with Wikipedia...
Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
- 1836 - Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1912 - Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publications in Saint Petersburg.
- 1970 - First Earth Day celebrated.
Birthdays - 1854 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1943)
- 1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
Deaths - 1994 - Richard Nixon, President of the United States (b. 1913)
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