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Apr 10, 2006 18:15

Go to Wikipedia, and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, three births and three deaths, and include the year.

Facts:
1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.

1991 - A fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five, before committing suicide.

Births:
1954 - Yanni, Greek musician
1840 - Claude Monet: French painter
1948 - Charles: Prince of Wales

Deaths:
565 - Justinian the Great: Byzantine Emperor
1831 - Georg Hegel: German philosopher
1915 - Booker T. Washington: American inventor, educator, and author
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