Fun Birthday Facts
- Zodiac Sign: Aries
- Half birthday: October 5
- Birthstone: Diamond
- Birth Flower: Daisy or Sweet_Pea
- Chinese Zodiac: Year of The White Metal Tiger
- Your baby will start kindergarten in 2015, be old enough to drive a car in 2026, finish high school in 2028, and will graduate from college with the class of 2032, give or take a year. Can you imagine?
Famous People Born On This Day
On This Day In History...
- The English King Richard I was killed during a castle siege by an arrow in 1199
- Regular sessions of the U.S Congress began in New York City in 1789
- The Battle of Shiloh began in the American Civil War in 1862
- The multiple telegraph was patented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1875
- In Athens, the beginning of the first modern Olympic games took place in 1896
- The North Pole had been reached for the first time by Mathew Hanson and Robert Peary in 1909
- Yugoslavia and Greece were invaded by Germany in 1941
- Ground troops were authorized for operations in Vietnam by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in 1965
- Sugar Ray Leonard beat Marvin Hagler for the middleweight belt in 1987
- For the first time The Dow Jones closed over 9000 in 1998
