From Spackle.
Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia (ie. November 1):
List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.
Three facts:
* 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
* 1520 - The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
* 1870 - In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
Two births:
* 1942 - Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher
* 1963 - Rick Allen, British drummer (Def Leppard)
(And because I like her) * 1972 - Toni Collette, Australian actress
One death:
* 1894 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
And because you have to put it down when you see this sort of thing:
* Hello Kitty’s birthday, 1974.
And other occurences on my birthday because I couldn’t pick just three!!!
* 1894 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
* 1896 - A picture showing the naked breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
* 1922 - The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
* 1939 - The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is shown to the world.
* 1951 - US soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada; participation was not voluntary.
* 1952 - Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed “Mike” [”m” for megaton], at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.