Apr 12, 2006 09:46
Wikipedia
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.
December 12:
THREE EVENTS-
1098 - First Crusade: Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan - Crusaders breach the town's walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism.
1963 - Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom. (meaning my birthday is celebrated as INDEPENDENCE DAY ha ha ha)
2000 - The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore
TWO BIRTHS- (okay so i put one more)
1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist
1915 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor
1923 - Bob Barker, American television game show host
ONE DEATH-
1212 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (simply because the dude died on 12-12-1212)