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Meme...from Jag, who finds the coolest things! :)
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.
46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
1957 - Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opens on Broadway
1960 - In Chicago, Illinois, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1984 - United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong.
Births
1887 - Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)
1888 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
Deaths
1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
1945 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
2003 - Robert Palmer, British singer (b. 1949)
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.
46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
1957 - Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opens on Broadway
1960 - In Chicago, Illinois, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1984 - United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong.
Births
1887 - Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)
1888 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
Deaths
1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
1945 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
2003 - Robert Palmer, British singer (b. 1949)