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Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/). Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
July 18
Three Events:
64 BC - Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.
1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium.
1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
Two Birthdays:
1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1937 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author
One Death:
1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist