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Apr 08, 2006 02:04


History is fun.

Go to Wikipedia, and type in your birth day and month. List three interesting events, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

December 20

3 Events

217 - The papacy of Pope Zephyrinus ends.

1803 - Louisiana Purchase completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.

1999 - Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples.

2 Births

1868 - Harvey Firestone, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)

1946 - Uri Geller, Israeli psychic

1 Death

1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

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