MEME based on my Date of Birth, etc

May 19, 2006

Do a Wikipedia search of your birthdate, minus the year;
list three interesting events, three people who were born, and three people who died on that day.

Events:

* 1354 - Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
* 1554 - A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
* 2004 - On National Freedom to Marry Day, two days after Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, California, issued a directive to the county clerk, the City and County of San Franciso begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Births:

* 1881 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
* 1768 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835)
* 1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882)

Deaths:

* 1771 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (b. 1710)
* 1554 - Lord Guilford Dudley, consort of Lady Jane Grey (executed) (b. 1536)
* 1971 - James C. Penney, American department store founder (b. 1875)