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jocelyncs:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.
Three Neat Facts
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling. (Reminds me of the Diana Gabaldon books with the FIT guy.... mmm... yay for fancying fictional characters...
1922 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
Two Births
1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
Two Deaths
1941 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier, writer, and founder of Scouting (b. 1857) (Yay for Scouting!)
2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914) (Yay for linguists!)
jocelyncs:Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.
Three Neat Facts
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling. (Reminds me of the Diana Gabaldon books with the FIT guy.... mmm... yay for fancying fictional characters...
1922 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
Two Births
1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
Two Deaths
1941 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier, writer, and founder of Scouting (b. 1857) (Yay for Scouting!)
2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914) (Yay for linguists!)
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Date: 2006-04-15 10:07 pm (UTC)648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
1814 - Napoleon abdicates. He is then exiled to Elba.
1930 - Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt (some say just a pinch, some say just a grain) and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he starts Salt Satyagraha.
Births:
1483 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
1937 - Merle Haggard, American musician
Deaths:
1520 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect - Talk About Bad Luck
1971 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer