Wikipedia Meme

Snagged from cinderlla81

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. 

Facts:
1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War. 

1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle

1917 - Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg) from exile in Finland. 

Births:
Okay, I found a lot of cool ones, so here's more than two
1844 - Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate 
1867 - Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer
1889 - Charles Chaplin, English actor, writer, and film producer
1927 - Pope Benedict XVI 
1930 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flute player
1939 - Dusty Springfield, English singer
1940 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark 
1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player

Death:
1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)