Since I don't really feel like making a larger blog post, you'll have to be content with this. Seen in too many places to list.
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. Post this in your journal.
My birthdate is May 3.
Events:
1810 - Lord Byron swims the Hellespont.
1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was part of a storm system that produces 66 tornadoes. The Oklahoma City tornado kills 42 people and injures 665, and causes $1 billion in damage. (see The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak)
Births:
1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
Death:
1152 - Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England
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