Apr. 7th, 2006

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Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.com) 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

November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 32 days remaining.

1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

1922 - Howard Carter opened the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen ("King Tut") to the public.

1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

1961 - The U.S. spacecraft Mercury-Atlas 5 is launched with Enos, a chimpanzee, aboard (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).

1972 - Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.

1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.

Births

1832 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (d. 1888)

1898 - C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (d. 1963)

1918 - Madeleine L'Engle, American author

Death

1974 - [The day I was born] Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)


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