i found something to do!

1. Go to Wikipedia and put in your birthday, without the year, in the search bar.
2. List on your blog 5 events, 4 births, 3 deaths and 1 holiday that happens(ed) on your birthday.
3. Then tag 5 more friends to do it!

for all 5 people who read my blog... consider yourself tagged! (thanks, tangental C

events:
1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope.
1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins
2007 - Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. was found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.

births
1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
1906 - Lou Costello, American actor comedian (d. 1959)
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player

deaths
1952 - Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (executed) (b. 1895)
1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)

holiday
Ghana - Independence Day (from Britain, 1957)
and, in super-special years, Casimir Pulaski's birthday was celebrated on my birthday, but he was really born two days before.

now you do it!