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Apr 24, 2006 23:30

Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.

Three Events
1. 1853 - Potato chips are first prepared.
2. 1847 - Charlotte Brontë finishes Jane Eyre.
3. 1967 - Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up.

Birthdays
1. 1988 - Rupert Grint, English actor (Ron from Harry Potter^^)
2. 1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)

Deaths
1. 1680 - Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)

Chips, Charlotte Bronte and irish theives. I have a great birthday :D xxx
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