stealings yet again! XDDD
im picking more than 3 cuz im awesome XD
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Rules: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, three births and one death in your journal, including the year.
July 28th
1493 - Great fire in Moscow.
1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed on order from Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1609 - Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English Sea Venture, en route to Virginia.
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States.
1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.
1965 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1996 - Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground. (i TOTALLY remember this :D )
Births:
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1943 - Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
1945 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist (he made garfield! yay!)
1964 - Lori Loughlin, American actress (rebecca on full house XP )
1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician (musician?! hehehehe... id say hes a comedian first and foremost ;) )
1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, American actress (jesse from saved by the bell! lol!)
1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach) (LOL!!! hes exactly 10 yrs older than me... weird)
1988 - Ayla Brown, American singer (that girl that was on american idol in 2006 who is really good at basketball LOL)
Deaths:
450 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
1057 - Pope Victor II
1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619) (hes the guy that the play is based on... obviously... lol... you know, the one about the guy with a big nose that writes love letters for this dumb jock guy so he can win over this girl... i read the book... aMAzing XD )
1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685) (hmm, apparently my birthday marks the death of MUSIC X( )
1957 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876) (i remember learning about her in high school XD )
2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915) (he did the voice of thumper in bambi! :D )
theres also a lot of french people and nobel laureates... hehe
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hooray that was fun XD
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Rules: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, three births and one death in your journal, including the year.
July 28th
1493 - Great fire in Moscow.
1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed on order from Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1609 - Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English Sea Venture, en route to Virginia.
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States.
1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.
1965 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1996 - Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground. (i TOTALLY remember this :D )
Births:
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1943 - Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
1945 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist (he made garfield! yay!)
1964 - Lori Loughlin, American actress (rebecca on full house XP )
1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician (musician?! hehehehe... id say hes a comedian first and foremost ;) )
1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, American actress (jesse from saved by the bell! lol!)
1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach) (LOL!!! hes exactly 10 yrs older than me... weird)
1988 - Ayla Brown, American singer (that girl that was on american idol in 2006 who is really good at basketball LOL)
Deaths:
450 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
1057 - Pope Victor II
1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619) (hes the guy that the play is based on... obviously... lol... you know, the one about the guy with a big nose that writes love letters for this dumb jock guy so he can win over this girl... i read the book... aMAzing XD )
1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685) (hmm, apparently my birthday marks the death of MUSIC X( )
1957 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876) (i remember learning about her in high school XD )
2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915) (he did the voice of thumper in bambi! :D )
theres also a lot of french people and nobel laureates... hehe
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hooray that was fun XD