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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.
Events
# 1940 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' only third-term president.
# 1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building. Fawkes was later hanged, drawn and quartered for his role in the conspiracy.
# 2004 - The Incredibles is released by Buena Vista Distribution in the United States.
Births
1952 - Bill Walton, American basketball player and commentator
1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
Deaths
# 1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
Events
# 1940 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' only third-term president.
# 1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building. Fawkes was later hanged, drawn and quartered for his role in the conspiracy.
# 2004 - The Incredibles is released by Buena Vista Distribution in the United States.
Births
1952 - Bill Walton, American basketball player and commentator
1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
Deaths
# 1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)