Emulating Geoff Arnold, who is emulating Gene Bob:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts/events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
Events:
- 1214 – University of Oxford receives its charter.
- 1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
- 1963 – The so-called “red telephone” was established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Births:
- 1756 – Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (d. 1792)
- 1819 – Jacques Offenbach, German composer (d. 1880)
Deaths:
- 1866 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)