Birthday Meme

Linda at 2nd Cup of Coffee tagged me for my very first meme. I want you to know, because I'm all about full disclosure, that I've donned a clean sweatshirt and put TWO rhinestone clippys in my unruly hair in observance of the occasion.

What you do IS ... you go to Wikipedia and enter your birthdate sans the year. You report 3 events, two birthdays, one death and one holiday type thing. Tag 5 more people.

JANUARY 27 (shop now and beat the crowds! ;~D)

EVENTS:

1825 - US Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."

1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

2001- Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado.

2 BIRTHS:

1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Austrian composer

1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (Alice in Wonderland)

1921 - Donna Reed, American actress (whose TV persona I fail to imitate on a daily basis)

DEATH:

1910 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (SO not kidding!)

HOLIDAY:

UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day

I tag YOU! Have fun!