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Birthday Facts
The Rules:
1.Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2.List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday
FACTS:
(i did five, so hah!)
-70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
-1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
-1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
-1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
-1981 (the actual year i was born) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (these were the first recognized cases of AIDS).
BIRTHS:
-1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (d. 1790)
-1887 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923])
-1990 - Jonathan Puonti, Finnish giant
DEATHS:
-2004 - Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States (b. 1911)
The Rules:
1.Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2.List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday
FACTS:
(i did five, so hah!)
-70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
-1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
-1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
-1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
-1981 (the actual year i was born) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (these were the first recognized cases of AIDS).
BIRTHS:
-1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (d. 1790)
-1887 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923])
-1990 - Jonathan Puonti, Finnish giant
DEATHS:
-2004 - Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States (b. 1911)