Apr 18, 2006 14:38
Go to wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
Events
1788 - The United States Constitutional Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S. (!)
1813 - The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a larger American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
Births
1802 - Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and political writer (d. 1880)
1916 - Roald Dahl, Welsh writer (d. 1990)
Death
1998 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)