meme-age

Go to Wiki and search for your birthday. Enter here 3 events, 2 births and 2 deaths.
My birthday is August 25, for those who don't know.

Well, I'm going to copy whatever pleases me!! Here goes:

Events
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded.
1814 - Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812
1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, started on August 13, now ends. The Red Army is defeated.
1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.


Births
1530 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
1882 - Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland (d. 1966)
1917 - Mel Ferrer, American actor
1921 - Monty Hall, Canadian-born game show host
1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
1949 - Gene Simmons, Israeli-born bassist
1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model (schwing!!)

Deaths (eh, not so interesting)
1482 - Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
1984 - Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
2001 - Aaliyah, American singer (plane crash) (b. 1979)