Homework

I haven't done Lynette's homework yet, but rest assured, I will. Meanwhile, I have an assignment for all ya'll.

The game:
1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday without the year:
2. List 3 events that occurred that day:
3. List 2 important birthdays:
4. List 1 death:
5. List 1 holiday or observance:

My answers:

1. February 11

2. (Sue me, I picked 4, there were lots of intersting ones!)
1809 – Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.
1964 – At the Washington Coliseum, The Beatles give their first live performance in the United States.
1990 – Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
2006 – US Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots Harry Whittington in the face while the two are hunting together. (HA!)

3. 1847 -- Thomas Edison, American inventor of the lightbulb
1919 -- Eva Gabor, Hungarian born actress

4. 641 - Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium

5. National Inventors' Day in the United States