The Wikipedia Birthday meme!
Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Remember, remember, the 19th of December...
Events
1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller is sworn is as the 41st Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
Births
1910 - Jean Genet, French writer
1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
Deaths
1848 - Emily Brontë, British author