Apr 08, 2006 01:50
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday. List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal.
March 14th.
Events:
1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
2004 - Pope John Paul II becomes the second-longest serving pope in history.
Births:
1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849)
1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) =)
Deaths:
1883 - Karl Marx, German political theorist (b. 1818)
All in all, a pretty happenin' day, I think.