Wikipedia (your birthday here) meme!

Gakked from joeysdramaqueen:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

I cheated, 'cause October is the bestest month EVER!!! I love October, it's my favorite month - I think it would be even if I hadn't been born then. It's the beginning of cooler weather and it's the gateway to the holiday season. The stretch from October-December is the best.

On my birthday - October 3rd

Events
1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.
1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the last Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.
1942 - First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.
1951 - New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League pennant, with Bobby Thomson's "The Shot Heard 'Round the World".
1960 - The Andy Griffith Show debuts.
1962 - At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 blasts off with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a nine-hour flight.
1964 - Underdog debuts on CBS.
1990 - Re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceases to exist, and East German citizens become part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Day of German Union.
1992 - Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live.
2005 - Annular solar eclipse

Births
1873 - Emily Post, American etiquette advisor (d. 1960)
1900 - Thomas Wolfe, American author (d. 1938)
1916 - James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
1925 - Gore Vidal, American author
1941 - Chubby Checker, American musician
1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, American musician
1954 - Al Sharpton, American minister and politician
1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990)
1959 - Jack Wagner, American actor
1962 - Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer (No Doubt)
1971 - Kevin Richardson, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1973 - Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
1976 - Seann William Scott, American actor
1984 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer

Deaths
1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
1656 - Myles Standish, English-born soldier
1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912)
1998 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
2000 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)
2002 - Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
2004 - Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)

I'm pleased to see that I share a birthday with Gwen Stefani, the most fabulous expectant woman evah. I nearly gagged when I saw that, unfortunately, Ashlee Simpson had the gall to pop out on October 3rd too. ;-p

Hubs!monkey thinks he's funny. ;-)

I don't know if I've mentioned this or not, but my husband is a world class goof. Want proof? Follow the cut to see what happened to my doll collection one afternoon. He was snickering softly in the living room, wondering when I'd notice. ;-)

( husband!monkey is the craziest peoples. )