Apr 06, 2006 21:22
From brakspants
Birth date meme: 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.
SEPTEMBER 13
Events
• 1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his David.
• 1948 - Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
• 1988 - Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).
Births
• 1819 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer
• 1857 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate entrepreneur (mmmmm…chocolate)
• 1941 - David Clayton-Thomas, singer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
Deaths
• 2003 - Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana