Stolen from SusiePie:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska, from Russia, celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day ($7.2 million paid).
1925 – The Grand Ole Opry opens
1968 – Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90m in the long jump at the Mexico City games. This becomes the longest unbroken track and field record in history, standing for 23 years, and is later named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century.
Births:
1939 – Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and commentator
1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
Death:
1931 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
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