Interesting facts

I got this idea from Courtney.

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List five interesting facts, four births and three deaths in your journal, including the year. (I changed it a little bit from what Courtney did.)

April 19

Interesting Facts:
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord – British General Thomas Gage attempts to confiscate American colonists' firearms. Captain John Parker orders his band of minutemen to not fire unless fired upon. Random shots rang out among the British soldiers. The minutemen promptly fired back. This was the "shot heard round the world." The British are driven back to Boston, Massachusetts, thus beginning the American Revolutionary War.

1943 - World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

1993 - The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die. *This happened on my 13th birthday*

1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. *I remember this day too well.*

1999 - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.

Births:
1721 - Roger Sherman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)

1922 - Erich Hartmann, German pilot (d. 1993)

1949 - Paloma Picasso, French/Spanish jewelry designer, fashion designer and businesswoman; daughter of artist Pablo Picasso

1979 - Kate Hudson, American actress

Death:
1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)

1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

1967 - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)