Your Birthday in History

Look in the newspaper or library for a "Today in History" column on your birthday. Cut it out and tape it to a clean sheet of notebook paper. Then write about what you discovered, using the following questions as a guide and adding any other reactions you might have had. Use complete sentences.

1. Which event surprised you the most?
2. Which event are you most glad happened on your birthday?
3. Which event seems the saddest?
4. What event do you feel made the greatest change for good in the world?
5. Does a famous person share your birthday? Who?

Put this in your family history book.

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