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The rules:
1. Go to Wikipedia
2. In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3. List three events that happened on your birthday
4. List two important birthdays and one death
5. One holiday or observance (if any)
Three things that happened on my birthday:
1972 - Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the sixth and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or “Moonwalk” of Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century.
2000 - American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States.
2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
Two important birthdays and one death:
1948 - Ted Nugent, American guitarist
1521 - Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
2005 - Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips (b. 1953)
Holiday or Observance:
December 13th - In the Julian calendar before the Gregorian reform, this was the shortest day and longest night, and widely celebrated as such.
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