May 08, 2006 05:16
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.
Three Facts:
* 845 - Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1979 - In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails at Three Mile Island, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
* 1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
Two Births:
* 1956 - April Margera, Bam Margera's mother
* 1970 - Vince Vaughn, American actor
One Death:
* 1941 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)