Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Events:
1871 - Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, having left nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire killed as many as 2,500 people making it the deadliest fire in United States history.
1939 - World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland.
2004 - Martha Stewart goes to jail.
Births:
1890 - Edward Rickenbacker, American pilot (d. 1973)
1943 - Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor
Death:
1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
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