wikipedia birthday meme

Mooooom, Kyle keeps meme-tagging me.  Make him stop!

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. Post it.

My birthday is 23 February.

Three events:

• 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.
• 1919 – Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
• 1995 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33, closing above 4,000 for the first time.

Two important births:

• 1633 – Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703)
• 1868 – W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)

One interesting death:

• 1821 – John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)