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Go to http://en.wikipedia.org and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
Facts:
1.1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
2.1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.
3.1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.
Births:
1.1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (d. 1989)
2.1972 - Geri Halliwell/Ginger Spice, British singer
Deaths:
1.2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
Facts:
1.1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
2.1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.
3.1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.
Births:
1.1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (d. 1989)
2.1972 - Geri Halliwell/Ginger Spice, British singer
Deaths:
1.2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)