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pouringsand: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthdate (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two three births, and two three deaths in your journal, including the year.
Yes, continue with the improved version.
1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 90,000 people were killed instantly.
2001 - White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks.
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1881 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
1965 - Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1966 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
Ach, I just had to go for the doom and gloom even though there were much happier events to include:
1909 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
2002 - Manindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P."
(watch me cheat)
pouringsand: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthdate (excluding the year). List three neat facts, Yes, continue with the improved version.
1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 90,000 people were killed instantly.
2001 - White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks.
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1881 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
1965 - Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1966 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
Ach, I just had to go for the doom and gloom even though there were much happier events to include:
1909 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
2002 - Manindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P."
(watch me cheat)
