"Go to Wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ/blog with three neat/important events, two births, and two deaths!"
EVENTS
793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known
1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
1953 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
BIRTHS
1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian adventurer (d. 1795)
1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
DEATHS
632 - Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
1874 - Cochise, Apache leader