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meme from Ms. Salsa:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal,including the year.

20 May is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years).

FACTS:
1570 - Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1883 - The eruption of Krakatoa begins, leading ultimately to the volcano’s destruction three months later.

BIRTHS:
1944 - Joe Cocker, British singer
1946 - Cher, American actress and singer

DEATH:
1506 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451)