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reynardine: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
October 21st
1600 - Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate, who in effect ruled Japan until the mid-Nineteenth century.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - a British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signaled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century.
1879 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13 1/2 hours before burning out).
1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
1956 - Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer
1805 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1758)
reynardine: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.October 21st
1600 - Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate, who in effect ruled Japan until the mid-Nineteenth century.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - a British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signaled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century.
1879 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13 1/2 hours before burning out).
1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
1956 - Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer
1805 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1758)
