A use for Wikipedia

Okay, silly meme thing I got pestered into playing with which for all I know already made the rounds and I just failed to notice it.

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

So...

3 Neat Facts
1912 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.
1969 - The first Internet connection was created when network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another,
1974 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
(also '2002 - A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.' which I wonder if we should consider as a sort of celestial 'warning shot'...)

2 Births
1799 - Alexander Pushkin (Russian poet)
1872 - Tsarina Alexandra of Russia
(also apparently '2001 - Shinji Ikari' from the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime/manga...)

1 Death
1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist
(also '1991 - Stan Getz, American musician and composer' who performed 'The Girl from Ipanema' which tortures elevator riders when converted to muzak to this day...)