Wikipedia Meme

Swiped from ginamariewade and gigglingwizard:
Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birthdate and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.

Okay–my birthday is November 12, 1966. Oddly enough, I couldn’t find anything that happened on my actual date of birth. There were plenty of things that happened on November 12 of other years. I tried to pick relatively upbeat events.

Events:

• 1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
• 1981 – The Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first spacecraft to be launched twice.
• 1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

Births:

• 1929 – Princess Grace of Monaco, American Actress, Royalty
• 1962 – Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist

Death:

• 1916 – Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)