This day in history . ..

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

Neat Facts:
1674 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives".
1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.

Births:
1341 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1483 - Martin Luther, German protestant reformer (d. 1546)
1775 - United States Marine Corps Birthday
1928 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
1960 - Neil Gaiman, English writer

Deaths:
627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
1777 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)