Wikipedia day-of-birth meme

Recipe:

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. ´
5. Post it.

So, for February 27:

Three events:

• 1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.


• 1933 - Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.


• 1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14

Two birthdays:

• 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)


• 1923 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)

One death:

• 1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)

Decided against tagging anyone – the world’s politest self service right at ya’…