wikipedia meme ::yawn::

[wearekim]

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three births, three deaths, and three neat facts in your journal, including the year.

Births:

1863 - Charles Ringling, American circus owner
1946 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer
1968 - Lucy Liu, American actress

Britney Spears & Nelly Furtado were also born on my birthday.

Deaths:

1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan
1814 - Marquis de Sade, French writer
1859 - John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged)

and because these are interesting:

1993 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug dealer
2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged)
2005 - Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed)

Events:

1859 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
1942 - Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
2000 - The Smashing Pumpkins perform for the last time at The Metro in Chicago.
2005 - Kenneth Boyd becomes the 1,000th person to be executed in the United States since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.

Lots of interesting things have happened on my birthday, I could've almost copy & pasted the entire wiki entry, LOL