wikipedia birthday meme
July 22nd
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.
Events:
1796 - Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1933 - Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1977 - Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
Births:
1932 - Oscar De la Renta, Dominican-born fashion designer
1940 - Alex Trebek, Canadian-born game show host
Deaths:
1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, a Canadian engineer and inventor, known for the introduction of Universal Standard Time
and a Holiday too:
Pi Approximation Day
YAY!
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.
Events:
1796 - Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1933 - Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1977 - Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
Births:
1932 - Oscar De la Renta, Dominican-born fashion designer
1940 - Alex Trebek, Canadian-born game show host
Deaths:
1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, a Canadian engineer and inventor, known for the introduction of Universal Standard Time
and a Holiday too:
Pi Approximation Day
YAY!