I wasn't going to do this but checked it out anyway and had entirely forgotten the interesting people who share my birthday.

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

Events
1809 - Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a US patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1961 - Mercury program: Mercury 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
2005 - The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party are re-elected for a third, consecutive term. [although a whole lot less exciting than the 3rd May 1979 and 1st May 1997 elections]

Birthdays
1943 - Michael Palin, British writer, actor, and comedian
1957 - Richard E. Grant, British actor

Death
1821 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)

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