And I sing at the top of my lungs

The Wikipedia birthday meme. I found this originally through fleurdelis28 and later in somewhat altered form on humglum's journal; I present the latter version here.

Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.

Events:
1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.

1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.

Births:
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)

1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician

Death:
1974 - death of Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)

And this is not part of the meme, but entertains me enormously: my birthday is also apparently the feast-day of the Catholic St. Denis, whose manner of execution caused later artists no end of trouble:

According to the Golden Legend, after his head was chopped off, St Denis picked it up and walked several miles, all the time preaching a sermon. The site where he stopped preaching and actually died was made into a small shrine that developed into the Saint Denis Basilica, which became the burial place for the Kings of France . . . This walk has led to St Denis being depicted in art as headless, holding his mitred head in his hands. Handling the halo in this circumstance offers a unique challenge for the artist. Some put the halo where the head used to be; others have St Denis carrying the halo along with the head.

*snerk*