Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three or four neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year. Mine: June 28th
1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom
1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday
1938 - A 450 metric ton meteorite struck the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania
1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified from WBA title re-match, for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield
Births:
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Belgian painter (painted fat chicks like me!!)
1966 - John Cusack, American actor (ahhh, lust lust!)
Deaths:
2004 - Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
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I just did it, was fun
Mine: May 5th
4 neat facts:
1809 - Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1862 - Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.
1893 - Panic of 1893: Crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.
1964 - 5 May is declared Europe Day on the 25th anniversary of the Council of Europe.
Births:
1973 - Tina Yothers, American actress , she starred in on that tv show with Michael J. fox, i forget the name of it
1981 - Craig David, British singer (OMG I love Craig David, I didn't know we shared a birthday)
Deaths:
1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
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