Wikimeme

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Go to http://en.wikipedia.org and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Facts
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Colonel Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.
1869 - The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
1908 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, USA).

Births
1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln
1957 - Sid Vicious, English bassist

Death
1863 - Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general

Random

I'm starting to really like Facebook.com simply because I have 11 of my cousins there. All save 1 of them are on my dad's side, which is the side I'd like to get in better touch with.