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)