Birthday Meme

(Swiped from Kwizgiver, who did it on her birthday)

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays
5. List one interesting death.


EVENTS:
1) 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

2) 1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.

3) 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.

BIRTHDAYS:
1) 1651 – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican mystic and author (d. 1695)

2) 1817 – Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)

DEATH:
1994 – Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)

Today is also the feast day for Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych, which I never knew till today.