Wikipedia Meme

(Lifted from Carol at She Lives)

The rules are:

1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)

Events

• 1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
• 1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
• 1848 – First commercial production of chewing gum by John Curtis on a stove at his home in Bangor, Maine in the United States and marketed as ‘The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum‘.

Birthdays

• 1215 – Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (“In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree…”)
• 1889 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist and co-founder of The New Republic magazine
• 1930 – Ray Charles, American musician.  My birthday is also shared by some other big name stars, like John Coltrane, Mickey Rooney, Bruce Springsteen, and Julio Iglesias.

Death

• 1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist

Holidays and Observances

• Astrology: Usually the first day of sun sign Libra in the tropical zodiac.