Apr 08, 2006 16:48
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.
June 15
neat facts:
763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity.
1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.8 km²) around Arlington Mansion are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
births:
1902 - Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst
1964 - Courteney Cox, American actress
death:
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)