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Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) and look up the day of your birth (leave out the year). Then post the most interesting events, births, deaths and holidays that are associated with that day.

Events:

1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1786 - The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1874 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party
1893 - Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
1917 - Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia is still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 25 date).
1941 - Jewish tragedy in Nemyriv, Ukraine: German fascists murder 2580 Jews. Earlier in September, 1941 2,400 Jews were shot by German Nazis at the brickworks near Nemyriv.
1944 - U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins re-election over challenger Thomas E. Dewey, to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.
2000 - U.S. presidential election, 2000: Democratic Vice President Al Gore wins the popular vote against Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2006 - In the U.S. midterm elections, Democrat Keith Ellison of Minnesota becomes the first Muslim elected to the United States House of Representatives.

Births:

994 - Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
1687 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
1858 - Bipin Chandra Pal , Indian Freedom Fighter
1860 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)
1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
1926 - Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano
1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive
1981 - Lily Thai, Asian porn star
1986 - Sol Aranza, Mexican voice actress


Deaths:

1225 - Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
1633 - Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
1910 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)
1944 - Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
1992 - Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
2004 - Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)

Holidays:

Northern Catalonia - National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees.
Russia - day of the October Revolution (1917) in the Gregorian Calendar, unofficially commemorated.

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