This meme yields lots of interesting stuff

[cmuckle]

1. Search Wikipedia for your birthday.
2. List 4 entries from the "Events" section, 3 from the "Births" section, 2 from the "Deaths" section, and one from the "Holidays and Observances" section.

4 Events 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan - set sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe

Comments

[torontoangel]

I did mine. Interesting things happen on every day and date, eh?

...and on december 13

[iamjanjan]

4 events:
-1636: The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
-1769: Dartmouth College is founded by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.
-1962: NASA "Relay 1" launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
-2006: The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct.

3ish births:

-1871: Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
-1925: Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian
-1929: Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
-1957: Steve Buscemi, American actor

2 deaths:
-1944: Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist (b. 1866)
-1961: Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)

1 holiday:
Saint Lucy's Day in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and some regions of Italy, mainly Sicily, Veneto and Trentino.