Birthday Mantra
Go to Wikipedia.
In the search box type in the month of your birth and the date (not the year)
1) List three events that happened on the day of your birth
1947 - In New York City Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1975 - Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
2000 - David Letterman returns to The Late Show over a month after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery.
2) List two “people of note” also born on the day
1927 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996)
1958 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer
3) List one “person of note” that died on the day
1974 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
4) List any holiday or observances
Language Martyrs' Day - A day celebrated by Bengali speaking people for gaining right of mother tongue.
International Mother Language Day (UNESCO).

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