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Dec 16, 2006 22:50

Instructions:Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Births:
1856 - William Willett, English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (d. 1915)  Bastard
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor

Interesting Facts:
2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
1981 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammed began to receive the Qur'an.

Deaths:
612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
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