Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Events on August 7th
1794 – Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1945 – President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
1990 – At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90 i.e. 1234567890.
[Note: a depressingly large number of events were war-related on my birthday. poo, I say!]
Births on August 7th
1560 – Elizabeth B, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
1960 – David Duchovny, American actor
1975 – Charlize Theron, South African actress (yay!!!!!)
Deaths on August 7th
1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1957 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
