Birthday Meme

Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at wikipedia.org, and pick three interesting events, four births, two deaths, and a holiday.

Events:

1789 - New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1943 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.

1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union's agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

Births:

1921 - Jim Garrison, American detective, author, and politician (d. 1992)

1924 - Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician who made discoveries in fracals

1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General, Senator from New York State, and brother of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1968)

1940 - Bob Einstein, American actor better known as Super Dave Osborne

Deaths:

1910 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)

1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)

Holiday:

United Kingdom - wedding day of Queen Elizabeth II (1947), official flag day