Wikipedia Fun

I found this over at Cozy Reader's blog who found it over at Susie's blog and I thought it would be fun.

If you decide to play, go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (excluding the year) into the search bar. List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Facts

1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.

1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - U.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

1981 -The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publicatio

Births

1942 Garrison Keillor, American Writer and Radio Host

1975 Charlize Theron, South African Actress

Deaths

2005 Peter Jennings Canadian Born Newsanchor