taken from phonographgirl & chanharrison
Go to Wikipedia.org and enter your birthday excluding the year. (scroll to the bottom, it’s there.) Find out what interesting fact, births, and deaths that happened on this day. List three neat things that happened, three births and three deaths.
Interesting events:
~1955 - The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
~1989 - TV show Fast Forward starts on the ATN-7 Network (Australia).
~2005 - In Canada, a motion by the opposition Conservative Party to kill legislation opening the door for legalized same sex marriage is defeated 164-132.
Births:
~1748 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
~1848 - José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet
~1884 - Otto Meyerhof, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1951)
Deaths:
~1443 - Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
~1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
~1989 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
Interesting events:
~1955 - The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
~1989 - TV show Fast Forward starts on the ATN-7 Network (Australia).
~2005 - In Canada, a motion by the opposition Conservative Party to kill legislation opening the door for legalized same sex marriage is defeated 164-132.
Births:
~1748 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
~1848 - José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet
~1884 - Otto Meyerhof, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1951)
Deaths:
~1443 - Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
~1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
~1989 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)