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1. Go to Wikipedia.org
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. One holiday or observance (if any).
Events:
1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state. (I guess the Mormons were just too EXTREME)
1904 - First New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of the biggest in world.
1997 - Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activated their "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early.
Birthdays:
1939 - John Cleese, British actor and writer
1958 - Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
Deaths:
1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
Holiday/ Observance:
The feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saint:
- St. Abraham the Poor (What a crappy name)
Oh, Woe is me.