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Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, some births and one death in your journal, including the year.

*1765 - Antoine de Beauterne announced he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan.
*1780 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

Births
1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
1947 - Stephen King, American author
1950 - Bill Murray, American actor
1967 - Faith Hill, American singer
1968 - Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
1971 - Luke Wilson, American actor
1972 - Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)
1981 - Nicole Richie, American actress

Deaths
1987 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)

Holidays?
International Day of Peace of the United Nations, as propagated by Peace One Day
RC Saints - Matthew the Evangelist
Also see September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day in Malta (1964), Belize (1981) & Armenia (1991)
Philippines - Thanksgiving Day
Mabon - Neopagan festival of Mabon
In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begins.