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Apr 12, 2006 19:12

go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday without the year. pick 3 events, births, and death that happend on that day. post.

Events
1. 600 - Pope Gregory I decreed that "God bless you" was the correct response to a sneeze.
2. 1568 - The entire population of the Netherlands - three million people - was sentenced to death by the Roman Catholic Church for heresy; see Eighty Years' War.
3. 1857 - The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, DC, becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf.

Births
1. 1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
2. 1826 - Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
3. 1941 - Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader

Deaths
1.1899 - Félix Faure, President of France (b. 1841)
2. 1907 - Giosue Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
3. 1928 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (b. 1856)
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