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Filched from just about everywhere *g*
Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day
(but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List
two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your
journal.
Good grief, spoilt for choice!
Events:
1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery.
1780 - Never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm.
1919 - In Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk moves to Samsun from Istanbul with a few followers, to oppose the Ottoman government, which eventually leads to the Turkish War of Independence.
Birthdays:
1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1945 - Pete Townshend, English guitarist and lyricist
(And also, oddly enough, Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot - I wonder what that says about Taureans?)
Death:
1984 - John Betjeman, English poet (b. 1906)
Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day
(but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List
two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your
journal.
Good grief, spoilt for choice!
Events:
1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery.
1780 - Never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm.
1919 - In Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk moves to Samsun from Istanbul with a few followers, to oppose the Ottoman government, which eventually leads to the Turkish War of Independence.
Birthdays:
1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1945 - Pete Townshend, English guitarist and lyricist
(And also, oddly enough, Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot - I wonder what that says about Taureans?)
Death:
1984 - John Betjeman, English poet (b. 1906)