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Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Following arpaaxad and kakita_shisumo's precedent of adding personal observations as well..

August 14th
Facts:
-1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor, Macbeth (Fascinating to me since Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare play.)

-1846 - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. (Most likely dooming some local youth sports team to be known forevermore as The Cape Girardeau Meteorites while simultaneously providing me with a good potential name for a future Georgia Satellites cover band.)

-1967 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. (Being British, the pirates initially tried to play it off as "privateer radio" but this time the Crown was having none of it.)

Births
1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (Very interesting considering that I played in a punk band shortly after high school and my one lead vocal was on a song called "Huckleberry" based on Doc Holiday's famous line from the movie Tombstone, "I'll be your huckleberry.")

1960 - Sarah Brightman, English soprano (We were united by our love of Phantom of the Opera. Our birth date gives us something else in common. And she's probably the only person who sounds worse than me singing "Who Wants To Live Forever?")

Death
Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898) (I love this guy!)