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"Borrowed" from lucky4clover:
1. Go to Wikipedia and enter your DOB without the year.
2. List three historical events, two births and one death that happened on your birthday.
Events:
1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter.
1914 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who ( Read more... )
1. Go to Wikipedia and enter your DOB without the year.
2. List three historical events, two births and one death that happened on your birthday.
Events:
1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter.
1914 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who ( Read more... )
Comments 1
1871 - Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, having left nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire killed as many as 2,500 people making it the deadliest fire in United States history.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security, which will be headed by Tom Ridge.
2004 - Martha Stewart goes to jail.
Births
1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
1943 - Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor
1970 - Matt Damon, American actor
Me!
Deaths
1793 - John Hancock, American revolutionary and businessman
1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States
1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer
So I did three. :-P
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