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cedarrapidsgirl Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths, 3 holidays, and tag 3 friends. Feel free to do this meme if you want.
December 18
Events:
1) 1620 The Mayflower, lands in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, with 102 Pilgrims on board.
2) 1973 Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk is launched by Baikonur in the Soviet Union. (My birthday!)
3) 1999 NASA launches into orbit the Terra Platform carrying 5 Earth observation instruments.
Births
1) 1886 Ty Cobb (baseball player)
2) 1946 Steven Spielberg (director)
3) 1980 Christina Aguilera (singer)
Deaths
1) 1737 Antonio Stradivari (violin maker... of the Stradivarius violin, Sherlock Holmes' favorite)
2) 2006 Joseph Barbera (cartoonist, half of the Hanna-Barbera cartoonists)
3) 2008 Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Star Trek actress and widow of ST creator Gene Roddenberry)
Holidays
1) New Jersey Day (LOL!)
2) Feast of St. Sebastian the Martyr
3) Roman Feast of Epona (during Saturnalia)
Whoever wants to do it! :-)
Annie