plover's Journal: On the date of my birth:

helicobacter has launched a /. meme. Go to wikipedia and type in the month and day (no year) of your birth. Pick out three interesting events, two births and a death, and post them in your journal.

EVENTS:

• 1986 - Halley's Comet is visible in the night sky as it passes in its 76-year orbit around the sun.
• 1962 - Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
• 1802 - The U.S. Congress passes an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol; eventually this becomes the Library of Congress. It's a geek thing.

BIRTHS:

• 1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player, coach, and team owner.
• 1918 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989.) I only picked Ceausescu because I remember how much the Romanians enjoyed executing him.

DEATHS:

• 1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904.) And she never saw it coming!