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Look up your birthday in Wikipedia without the year and list 3 cool events, 2 births and 1 death.

Events

1364 - Jagiellonian University in Kraków, the oldest university in Poland, was founded in Kraków, Poland.
(I'm all for founding universities)
1949 - Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
(I'm kind of stgretching for "cool" -- but most of the listings are for battles and other icky things.)
1997 - In the 7th inning of a baseball game between the Anaheim Angels, and the Chicago White Sox,the Angels score 13 runs.
(I'm not much for baseball, but you've got to admit that's impressive.)

Births

Ok, I'm going to express my standard piss-offedness about the vastly disproportionate emphasis on men in history. I mean, only 15% women? Really? They couldn't do better than that? *sigh*

1820 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910)
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
(Ohmighod! How cool is that? I am sooooo in love with Katherine Hepburn.)

Death

1382 - Queen Joan I of Naples (b. 1327)
(Reading her bio, here is a woman who deserves to have historical novels written about her!)

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