Sunday, April 09, 2006

On My Birthday

Okay, so this is pretty cool & I got it from Jocelyn! Go to Wikipedia & search for your birthday without the year & then post 3 cool things that happened that day, 2 people that died, and one person that was born !! It was really hard to pick out the 3 events because lots of cool stuff happened on my birthday...but I picked 3 that had the most connection to me!

Events:
1925: Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1964: A young woman, Kitty Genovese is murdered in front of multiple witnesses who all fail to help her, in an incident which shocks the world and prompts investigation into the Bystander effect.
1993: The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec.


Deaths:
1906: Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
1938: Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)

Births:
2: Apollonius of Tyana

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