meme from [livejournal.com profile] deguspice

Apr. 6th, 2006 09:19 pm
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Meme: 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.

Events:
1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1927 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Gray whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident

Births:
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician

Death:
1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
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