I love these. Nicked from riddled and lotiel_vanya.

Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date. Then pick 3 events, 2 births, and 1 holiday that occurred on your birthday.

Events:1789 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts ( Read more... )

We need someone to do this again. Zappa may be gone, but his words of wisdom live on...

EDIT: ( Wikigeeking. )