Stolen from Neko

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.

Events:
1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1952 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.
1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

Births:
1937 - Saddam Hussein
1948 - Terry Pratchett (Choice 2 for the literature nerds on my friends list)
1970 - Nicklas Lidström (Choice 2 for the sports nerds on my friends list)

Deaths:
1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1882)