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Meme
Nicked from three quarters of my flist :)
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year).
List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
Date: 10th February
Events
1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
Births (mostly poets, authors or actors. Intriguing.)
1609 - Sir John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
Death (some interesting ones there but I had to pick this one)
1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, English pirate
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year).
List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
Date: 10th February
Events
1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
Births (mostly poets, authors or actors. Intriguing.)
1609 - Sir John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
Death (some interesting ones there but I had to pick this one)
1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, English pirate