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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.]
Events
1795 - France adopts the metre as the unit of length.
1927 - First long distance public television broadcast (Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1943 - First synthesis of LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, by Albert Hoffman
Births
1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
1920 - Ravi Shankar (musician), Indian sitar player
Death
1947 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)
Events
1795 - France adopts the metre as the unit of length.
1927 - First long distance public television broadcast (Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1943 - First synthesis of LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, by Albert Hoffman
Births
1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
1920 - Ravi Shankar (musician), Indian sitar player
Death
1947 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)