Wikipedia meme

[nontacitare]

"Go to Wikipedia. Enter in the day of your birth, leaving out the year. List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday."
http://wikipedia.org/

Facts
By Roman custom February 24 is the day added to a leap year, and the occurrence of February 29 is merely a consequence of this.

# 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

Dragobete in Romania.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragobete

Births
1304 - Ibn Battuta, explorer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta

1942 - Joseph Lieberman, American politician and vice presidential candidate

Deaths
2006 - Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler