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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)
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