Birthday Meme

This turns out to be quite interesting.

Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.

(Except I'm just going to put in all the ones I think are good)

Events
1604 - The town of Montreal is founded. (Where I was born, 363 years later)
1649 - An Act declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1780 - Never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm.
1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
1961 - Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back data).
1962 - A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday.
1999, 2002, 2005 - some movies were released.

Births
1890 - Ho Chi Minh
1925 - Malcolm X
1925 - Pol Pot
1945 - Pete Townshend
1946 - André the Giant

Deaths
1645 - Miyamoto Musashi
1935 - T. E. Lawrence
1987 - James Tiptree, Jr