Wikipedia Exercise
I got this from Heather's blog who got it from another friend's blog.
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 to your blog.
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 to your blog.
Three Events
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech -"give me liberty or give me death" at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1839 - First recorded use of "OK" as an abbreviation for "oll korrect" in the Boston Morning Post.
- 1989 - A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 400,000 miles.
Two important births
- 1905 - Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
- 1965 - Richard Grieco, American actor and singer
One interesting death
- 1742 - Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)
Comments
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