alexist

Go to wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat facts, two births, and two deaths!

Facts:
1777 - Vermont becomes the first American state to abolish slavery.
1878 - The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then-city of Brooklyn.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.

Births:
1903 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, U. S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)

Deaths:
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)