Thursday, November 15, 2012

Birthday Meme

(from last year)
I will find different ones than I used last time....


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
5. List one interesting death.



EVENTS:
1) 1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

2) 1938 – Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.

3) 1969 – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.

BIRTHDAYS:
1) 1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American suffragette (d. 1902)

2) 1917 - Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008)

DEATH:
1) 1094 – King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)

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