Apr 10, 2006 22:17
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.
1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1948 - T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1995 - Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.
Births
1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (Had to go with a cool name)
1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States (SHOOT ME NOW!)
1969 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor (Hellz yeah)
Deaths
1411 - Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (Bonus points if you know where that is without cheating!)
1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)