Apr 12, 2006 14:29
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
MAY 15
Events:
1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.
1869 - Woman's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1918 - Civil War in Finland ends.
Births:
1857 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911)
1891 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
Death:
2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)