While waiting for Windows XP to finish installing, I figure why not give in to the meme monster. Go 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. Neat Facts: 538 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration. (I'd say that's rather fitting.) 1604 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. 1781 - General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionaries at Yorktown, Virginia Births 1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005) 1938 - Evel Knievel, American daredevil Death 1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810) Also it is apparently Black Poetry Day in the U.S. on the 17th of October. Tags: meme
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