Birthday Meme

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 Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday

-1917 - Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia was still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show the date as October 25). 

-1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year. 

-1941 - Holocaust: In Nemyriv, Ukraine, German fascists murder 2580 Jews. 

-1990 - Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland. 


Births:
-1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)
-1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary
-1942 - Johnny Rivers, American singer and composer 

Deaths:
-1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States
-2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal

Holiday:
Day of the October Revolution (1917) in the Gregorian Calendar, an official holiday in the Soviet Union; unofficially commemorated in modern Russia.