That Birthday Wiki Meme

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Go to Wikipedia and put in your birthday. Pick 3 events, 2 births, and a death to share in your journal.

Events
1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia.
1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia.
2005 - Apple Computer released the Video iPod.

Births
1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor
1975 - Marion Jones, American athlete

Death
1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)