Meme me

This is something that has been doing the blog rounds, so I thought I may as well include one for my own birthday:

Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/). Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.

• 1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
• 1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.

• 1404 - Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
• 1936 - Doctor Who's Clive Swift, British actor

• 1955 - Albert Einstein, American, Swiss physicist, (b. 1879)