exhaustedGo 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.
July 16th
1880 - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada. (Bonus fact cause it's neat.)
1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 launches from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
(yes, and I watched it on TV. My 13th birthday present.)
1994 - The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
(I thought it was much more recent than that.)
1194 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
1952 - Stewart Copeland, American musician
1981 - Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
