Sep. 6th, 2007

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from k_calypso, I borrow this 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.

3 happenings on March 4:

1493 - Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal aboard his ship NiƱa from his discovery voyage to America. He returned to Spain on March 15.

1931 - The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing that salt is freely used by the poorest layers of the population.

1933 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.

2 births on March 4:

1188 - Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)

1954 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress

1 death on March 4:

1989 - Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)

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