A wee little Meme...

via Hot Links & Gumbo (and Alice):

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. List any holidays
6. Post it.

9 September - Three Events

1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

1947 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found": a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

9 September - Two Birthdays & One Death

Births

1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)

1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)

1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian

Death

1087 - William the Conqueror

9 September - Any Holidays

Eastern Orthodoxy - Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna.
Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku).
North Korea - Republic Day (1948).
Tajikistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).