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twirlgrrlGo to Wikipedia and look up your birth day in On This Day --> More Anniversaries. List three facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
Events:
1492 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola.
1848 - California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1933 - Prohibition ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States).
Births:
1901 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966)
1934 - Joan Didion, American writer
Death:
749 - Saint John of Damascus, theologian
Events:
1492 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola.
1848 - California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1933 - Prohibition ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States).
Births:
1901 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966)
1934 - Joan Didion, American writer
Death:
749 - Saint John of Damascus, theologian
