1. Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia 2. List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining.

Facts:
251 – The battle of Abrittus is won by Goths against Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.
1858 – The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1963 – ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.

Births:
1725 – Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
1869 – William Strunk Jr. American grammarian (d. 1946)

Deaths:
1894 – Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)

Also? Canada Day

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