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From [livejournal.com profile] merik and [livejournal.com profile] captpackrat:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List at three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.


December 14 events:

1287 - St. Lucia's flood, the Zuider Zee sea wall collapses in the Netherlands, killing more than 50,000

1542 - Mary Stuart becomes Mary I, Queen of Scotland

1911 - Roald Amundsen and team reach the south pole

1946 - The UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City


December 14 births:

1503 - Nostradamus, astrologer

1546 - Tycho Brahe, astronomer

1895 - George VI, King of the United Kingdom

1911 - Spike Jones, comedian and musician


December 14 deaths:

1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer

1799 - George Washington, general and US president

1985 - Roger Maris, baseball player

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