Apr 07, 2006 01:06
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday. List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal.
Stuff:
1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1982 - Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.
Births:
1914 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
1957 - Bret "Hitman" Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
Deaths:
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)