Wikipedia birthday meme

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births, and one death in your journal, including the year.

I listed more than just two birthdays. I felt like listing all the famous people. Not much action on my birthday.


1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.
1902 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).
1940 - Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States.

1856 - L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919)
1923 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
1936 - Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
1937 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
1941 - K.T. Oslin, American musician
1948 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer

1967 - Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)