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Wikipedia Meme
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.
(By the way, no one seems to be sticking to these numbers, so go crazy!)
All of the following occured on my birthday, February 13th! Every 7 years it's a Friday the13th!
Neat Facts
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation. (I included this one for my honey!)
1996 - Pop group
Take That announce that they are splitting up. (YAY!)
2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. :,(
Births
1942 - Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees) (My favourite band when I was wee.)
1950 - Peter Gabriel, English musician
1961 - Henry Rollins, American musician
1971 - Mats Sundin, Swedish hockey player (Incidentally, this is my exact birthday as well!)
Deaths
1542 - Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. 1525) (Only 17 years old!)
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