Fun Little MeMe to cheer up the Monday funk

I so grabbed this from my buddy Jenger. It seems like a fun time killer on Monday.
The rules are to go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday month and day only. Then post 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on your birthday, then tag 5 friends.
(Don't worry I'm not taggin!! Ya'll can do it if you want too!!)

Events:
(I'm putting a few more than 3. These are pretty interesting. Ya'll put as many as you want!)

1785 - The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.

1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp

1926 - John Logie Baird makes the first television broadcast

1967 - Apollo program: Apollo 1 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center ~

1997 - It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.

1998 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on The Today Show, calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.

Births:
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895)
1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
(And Pixelle too!! LOL!!)

Holidays:
UN — International Holocaust Remembrance Day


Well that was fun! Got to get back to work now. :-(

XOXO
Lesley