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Go to Wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat/important events, two births, and two deaths!
Birthday: August 13
Events:
3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury corollation, the Maya calendar starts.
1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1961 - The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
Births:
1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
1902 - Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (since I still want a Wankel powered car at some point...)
Deaths:
1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse
1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer