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waterspyder and ms_danson
Apr. 6th, 2006 04:30 pmGo to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
March 8
Neat facts
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but later on May 15 confirms the discovery).
1884 - Susan B. Anthony testifies before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.
1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
Births
1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1935)
Deaths
1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
March 8
Neat facts
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but later on May 15 confirms the discovery).
1884 - Susan B. Anthony testifies before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.
1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
Births
1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1935)
Deaths
1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)