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

December 6

Events:
1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1790 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1849 - American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
1884 - The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
1921 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives

Births:
846 - Hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam
1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile
1421 - King Henry VI of England
1642 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist
1792 - King William II of the Netherlands
1905 - James J. Braddock, American boxer
1993 - Elian Gonzalez, Cuban subject of child custody battle

Deaths:
1988 - Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter