Birthday Wiki meme from roisnoir

[danuv]

The Rules:
1.Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2.List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday


And as she did I'll probably list more.

Facts/events:
- Roman Empire – sixth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
- 1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.

(clearly a great day for events)

Births:
- 1519 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
- 1890 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
- 1892 - Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)

Death:
So many people I know nothing about to chose from! Here's a selection:
- 816 - Pope Leo III
- 1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
- 1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian

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Births :

1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
1974 - Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor

* Jermain Dye is the only player who's jersey I have. Not because of the birthday though. His number when he was in Oakland is 24 and his last name is Dye. I was married on the 24th and my nickname for my wife is Dye.

Deaths :

1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger:

Greg Jarvis (b. 1944)
Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948)
Ronald McNair (b. 1950)
Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946)
Judith Resnik (b. 1949)
Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939)
Michael J. Smith (b. 1945)

Events:

1521 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.

Not what you might think. Worms is the place this happened. And eye catcher though, eh?