And what makes you so special?

As seen on Autumn's Blog..

Here are the rules if you want to join in.
1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)

• 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• George Lucas' film, Star Wars, is released, and becomes an instant hit.
• Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher born
• Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor born
• Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer passses

• Ancient Latvia - Urbanas Diena observed

What's yours?