It's almost my Birthday Meme

Swiped from Major Bedhead.

Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday. Don't include the year. Record three events, three births and three deaths that happened on the day you were born.

1958 - Velcro's trade mark is registered.
1981 - Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.
1985 - The mayor of Philadelphia orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.

I remember the Pope being shot and MOVE. Wasn't around for the invention of Velcro.

1717 - Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)
1957 - Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, producer
1961 - Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor

An Empress, The dude who wrote Six Feet Under, and a freak. Not bad. But, Dennis Rodman: actor?

1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1937 - Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin
1961 - Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)

I chose Takeda because I talked to someone from that pharmaceutical company about a job last year. Ekaterina = Kathryn. And Gary? Well, c'mon, why not?