Birthday meme

From everyone and their brother:

From everybody, go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday, (no year) and list 3 events, 2 births and a death that happened on that day.

Apparently my birthday sucked for Jews:

694 - Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. (Not a Jewish thing, but it was Jack the Ripper.)
1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.

But it was good for science:

1921 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
1961 - Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6,587km/h flying a X-15. (Very important, as my grad work was on supersonic jet fuels.)
1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.

Births:
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996) (The man who inadvertantly got me to believe in God, which would probably make this atheist spin in his grave.)
1941 - Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (My dad's favorite band was CCR.)

Deaths:
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)

(no subject)

You know, this next chapter of Accidentally In Love is supposed to be moving and dramatic. But it sounds so much less so when I realize it boils down to zombies and Death Eater barfights.

Just saying.