My birthday - April 7
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klellingson:
Instructions: Go over to Wikipedia and enter the day you were born [such as "March 27"] and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on your birthday.
Events:
1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
1933 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
Births
1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
*there were lots and lots of other neat ones, like Ravi Shankar.
Holiday
Mozambique - Women's Day.
(Around the world it is also World Health Day.)
klellingson:Instructions: Go over to Wikipedia and enter the day you were born [such as "March 27"] and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on your birthday.
Events:
1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
1933 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
Births
1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
*there were lots and lots of other neat ones, like Ravi Shankar.
Holiday
Mozambique - Women's Day.
(Around the world it is also World Health Day.)
