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Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
I went overboard...but it is just such an interesting day (total sarcasm)!!!
FEB 1
FACTS
(More important things did happen, I just put the fun ones)
1974 - Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory. (HOW COULD I NOT INCLUDE THIS?)
1981 - Trevor Chappell bowls his infamous "Underarm Ball" to Brian McKechnie to prevent New Zealand scoring a 6, and tying the ODI, on the last ball of the third match in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. It directly led to the banning of underarm bowling by the International Cricket Council as not within the spirit of the game. (NOW THIS IS HISTORY!)
1994 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
BIRTHS
1859 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (d. 1924)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian auto manufacturer (d. 1988)
1901 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
1902 - Langston Hughes American writer (d. 1967)
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia
1965 - Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and actress--Less notable Pauly Shore too
1975 - Big Boi, American musician (Outkast) HOW COULD I FORGET HIM (HER?)
DEATHS
1851 - Mary Shelley, English author (b. 1797)
1944 - Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (b. 1872)
2003 - The crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia, astronauts:
Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959)
David Brown (b. 1956)
Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961)
Laurel Clark (b. 1961)
Rick D. Husband (b. 1957)
Willie McCool (b. 1961)
Ilan Ramon (b. 1954)
In Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the fictional character Willy Wonka gives an unprecedented tour of his chocolate factory on February 1 (year unspecified).
I really did leave some out, I swear!
I went overboard...but it is just such an interesting day (total sarcasm)!!!
FEB 1
FACTS
(More important things did happen, I just put the fun ones)
1974 - Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory. (HOW COULD I NOT INCLUDE THIS?)
1981 - Trevor Chappell bowls his infamous "Underarm Ball" to Brian McKechnie to prevent New Zealand scoring a 6, and tying the ODI, on the last ball of the third match in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. It directly led to the banning of underarm bowling by the International Cricket Council as not within the spirit of the game. (NOW THIS IS HISTORY!)
1994 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
BIRTHS
1859 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (d. 1924)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian auto manufacturer (d. 1988)
1901 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
1902 - Langston Hughes American writer (d. 1967)
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia
1965 - Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and actress--Less notable Pauly Shore too
1975 - Big Boi, American musician (Outkast) HOW COULD I FORGET HIM (HER?)
DEATHS
1851 - Mary Shelley, English author (b. 1797)
1944 - Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (b. 1872)
2003 - The crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia, astronauts:
Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959)
David Brown (b. 1956)
Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961)
Laurel Clark (b. 1961)
Rick D. Husband (b. 1957)
Willie McCool (b. 1961)
Ilan Ramon (b. 1954)
In Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the fictional character Willy Wonka gives an unprecedented tour of his chocolate factory on February 1 (year unspecified).
I really did leave some out, I swear!