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Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List ~~three neat facts~~ some events that catch your eye, two births, one death, and some interesting festivals in your journal. (<---Edited.)

Events:

306 - Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1853 - Joaquin Murietta, famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
1908 - Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG) and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1920 - Telecommunications: first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast.
1965 - Newport Folk Festival: Bob Dylan goes electric.
1976 - The first performance of the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach
1984 - Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1990 - Comedian Roseanne Barr grabs her crotch and spits on the ground when performing the " Star-Spangled Banner" at a San Diego Padres baseball game.
1999 - Lance Armstrong wins first Tour de France.
2004 - Lance Armstrong makes history, winning his 6th consecutive Tour de France.

Births:

1562 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (d. 1611)
1978 - Louise Brown, first test tube baby

Deaths:

1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)

Festivals:

Roman festivals - Furinalia (in honour of Furina, the goddess of robbers)
Virgin Islands - Hurricane Supplication Day
Inca - festival in honor of Ilyap'a*
Ebernoe Horn Fair, Sussex, England

*Illapa ("thunder and lightning"; aka Apu Illapu, Ilyap'a, Katoylla) was a very popular weather god. His holiday was on July 25. He was said to keep the Milky Way in a jug and use it to create rain.

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