Birthday Meme!!

Birthday Meme

1) Go to Wikipedia.
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday.
4) List two important birthdays and one death.
5) One holiday or observance (if any).

My birthday is March 27th.

Events:
1513 - (not 1512 as often cited) - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.

1994 - One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90


Births:
972 - King Robert I of France (d. 1031)

1969 - Mariah Carey, American singer

1988 - Brenda Song, American actress

Deaths:
1191 - Pope Clement III

2003 - Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)

Holidays and observances:
Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg in the Roman Catholic Church

Interesting pieces of information, thanks Sarah for sending it to me.