upon westminster bridge
gacked from patchfire:
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.
Facts:
301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
1189 - Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionhearted") is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1783 - The American Revolutionary War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Births:
1499 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, German automotive engineer (d. 1951)
Death:
1962 - e e cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
Interestingly, also on this day two popes were crowned (mitered?) and four eventual Nobel Prize laureates (all in science) were born.