trivia

Today is Setting Orange, day 61 in the season of Bureaucracy, 3271.

What does Wikipedia have to say about my birthday? Well, not specifically my birthday, but the date in general. Selected tidbits:

Events
753 BC - Romulus founds Rome (traditional).
1944 - Women in France receive the right to vote.
1975 - Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
1986 - Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live television and finds nothing. [<Nelson Muntz>HA ha!</Nelson Muntz>]
1989 - Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the late Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
1994 - The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
2005 - John Negroponte becomes the first United States Director of National Intelligence.

Births
1729 - Tsarina Catherine II of Russia (d. 1796)
1816 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855)
1838 - John Muir, American environmentalist (d. 1914)
1864 - Max Weber, German economist and sociologist (d. 1920)
1922 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish author (d. 1987)
1926 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
1936 - James Dobson, American evangelist [You misspelled "homophobic jerk" there.]
1947 - Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
1959 - Robert Smith, British musician, singer, and songwriter (The Cure)

Deaths
1142 - Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
1574 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
1699 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
1910 - Mark Twain, American author and humorist (b. 1835)
1946 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
1985 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian fashion designer (b. 1922)
1990 - Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
2003 - Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)