My Birthday
Harrison Hackbarth
May 3

FIRST EVENT YEAR 1986

• At the age of 54
• Legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby
• His horses name was Ferdinand
• The Kentucky Derby was originally held for three year olds
• This event was held the first Saturday of May at Churchill Downs in Louisville

EVENT 2 YEAR 1999

• Kanas and Oklahoma were hit with 55 tornados
• One tornado measured F5 on the Fujita scale
• F5 is 261-318 mph tornado
• Fujita scale was named after a Japanese American meteorologist Tetsuya

EVENT 3 YEAR 1937

• Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction
• Her book was Gone With the Wild
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes
• These are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

EVENT 4 YEAR 1979

• Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of England
• Margaret Thatcher nickname was "Iron Lady"
• She studied chemistry at Oxford
• Later became a lawyer and she was specializing in tax law

LIST PERSON 1 YEAR BORN 1920

• Sugar Ray Robinson was a professional boxer
• He turned professional in 1940
• He won the welterweight championship and the middleweight championship
• He was the first boxer ever to regain a title after retiring
• Robinson became the first man in boxing history to win a divisional

LIST 2 PERSON YEAR BORN 1919

• Pete Seeger was a American folksinger and composer
• Left Harvard in 1938 and made a journey through the United States
• Pete Seeger often invited the audience to sing along
• He did supported civil-rights, antiwar, environmental
• He composed "Where Have All the Flowers Gone,""Turn, Turn, Turn," and "If I Had a Hammer"

LIST 3 EVENT YEAR 2003

• New Hampshire’s symbol, the granite Old Man of the Mountain
• Collapsed in the state’s Franconia Mountains.
• The was a tragedy to the state's population
• These mountains average height is 5,249 ft

CITATIONS

• "Fact Monster: Online Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help. Web. 4 Mar. 2015.
• Pictures all from Haiku Deck :)