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lunesque ([personal profile] lunesque) wrote2006-04-08 11:36 am
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Stealing so much from [personal profile] suaine

"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."

July 22

Neat facts
1 1587 - Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
2 1942 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
3 1991 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment.

Birth
1 1973 - Rufus Wainwright, American singer and songwriter
2 1888 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1973)

Death
1 1934 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (shot) (b. 1903)

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