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Go to Wikipedia (
http://www.wikipedia.org/). Type in your birth date (but not year).
a. List three events that happened on your birthday.
b. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
Post this in your journal.
Events
1.
1955 - Black
Mississippian Emmett Till is murdered, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
2.
1963 - During a 200,000-person
civil rights rally in at the
Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C.,
Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous
I have a dream speech.
3.
1996 - Britain's
Charles, Prince of Wales, and
Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.
Birthday's (not so much important but I cuold really careless about the other people born on my b-day)
1. Jason Priestley (born
August 28,
1969), actor, was born in
North Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada. He is best known for his role on the television series
Beverly Hills 90210 as the virtuous
Brandon Walsh. He also appeared on the short-lived television series Sister Kate (
1989). He received good reviews for his work in
Love and Death on Long Island (
1997), in which he played a teen idol. In
2004 he became a series regular on
Tru Calling, and in
2006 joined the series
Love Monkey.
2. Shania Twain,
OC (born
August 28,
1965) is a
Canadian singer and
songwriter who has been very successful in the
country and
pop music genres, setting several sales records for female artists and for country artists.
Death (I just found this guy interesting)
Afonso V of Portugal (
Portuguese pron. IPA /ɐ'fõsu/;
English Alphonzo), or Affonso (Archaic Portuguese), the African (
Port. o Africano), 12th
king of Portugal and Algarves was born in
Sintra in
January 15,
1432 and died in the same city in
August 28,
1481. He was the oldest son of king
Duarte of Portugal by his wife, princess Eleanor of
Aragon. Afonso V was onlly six years old when he succeeded his father in
1438.