Fun Facts from Wikipedia

I saw this on another blog this morning and thought it looked fun. Go to wikipedia and type in your birthdate without the year. Then post three facts or events, two births, and two deaths that happened on your birthday, and include the year they happened.

Here are mine:

Facts:

1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.

1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.

1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.

Births:

1828 - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, American Civil War soldier

1841 - Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (d. 1904)

Deaths:

1755 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)

1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)

Here are some I picked out for Luke, since he's at work... he may come and change them later:

Facts:

1864 - Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch."

1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.

2001 - George W. Bush throws out the first pitch at Game 3 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, in what was intended to be a defiant gesture, coming just weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Births:

1735 - John Adams, American revolutionary leader and President of the United States (d. 1826)

And FIVE recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, including, most recently,
1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist

Deaths:

1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)

1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)

I also looked up our wedding date, so here's some fun info for that day:

70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.

1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Births (more than two - some of these were just too good to pass up!):

1493 - Justus Jonas, German protestant reformer (d. 1555)

1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)

1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (d. 1790)

1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)

1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)

1919 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)

Deaths:

1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)

1993 - Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)

2004 - Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States (b. 1911)

So, there are your fun facts for the day. What happened on your birthday or anniversary?