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But while I'm holding the late fort at work (and waiting for systems to update, too), the latest Meme courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] mdsteele47 and many others:

Wikipedia your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday:

Four Events

1779 - Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins.
1904 - Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; traditionally "Bloomsday".
1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
1963 - Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission - Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

Three Births

1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790)
1806 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
1890 - Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (d. 1965)

Two Deaths

1858 - John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)

One Holiday

South Africa - Youth Day. (After the Soweto massacres, which happened on my birthday in 1976)

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