On That Date In History!
Stolen from a buncha folks.
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.
February 26th
Events:
1266 - Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1935 - The Luftwaffe is reformed.
1944 - Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
1993 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand. The buildings would be destroyed in a subsequent attack on September 11, 2001.
(I had to put more than three... A lot of things happened on my birthday, apparently...)
Births:
1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer
1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer, officer, and hunter
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist
1916 - Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian
1932 - Johnny Cash, American singer
(Too many cool folks on that list to just put two...)
Deaths:
1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.
February 26th
Events:
1266 - Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1935 - The Luftwaffe is reformed.
1944 - Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
1993 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand. The buildings would be destroyed in a subsequent attack on September 11, 2001.
(I had to put more than three... A lot of things happened on my birthday, apparently...)
Births:
1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer
1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer, officer, and hunter
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist
1916 - Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian
1932 - Johnny Cash, American singer
(Too many cool folks on that list to just put two...)
Deaths:
1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor