cool meme

Go 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.

June 30

3 Events:

• 1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation."

• 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity.

• 1971 - The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.

2 Births:

• 1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist

• 1470 - King Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)

1 Death:

• 1597 - Willem Barents, Dutch explorer