WikiBirthday to the max.

[jimmyho]

Yeah, so here's the Wikipedia Birthday stuff that everyone's doing.

October 9th

Events:

• 1000 - Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America.
• 1967 - A day after being caught, Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
• 2005 - Smoking is fully banned on the UK rail network.

Births:

• 1940 - John Lennon
• 1953 - Tony Shalhoub
• 1954 - Scott Bakula

Deaths:

• 1967 - Che Guevara