Birthday

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Today is my birthday so I decided to check if something interesting happened on this date. This is what wikipedia has. Some of the ones that grabbed my attention - on this day:
China send first manned space mission;
Police got Jack the Ripper's "From Hell" letter;
The first submarine sunk;
Mata Hari was executed;
Hermann Göring poisoned himself;
The first oral contraceptive was synthesized by Luis E. Miramontes;
Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

So feeling bit down I checked famous people born on this day:
writers : Mikhail Lermontov and Mario Puzo;
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault;
Lee Iacocca;
actors: Dominic West and Ewa Błaszczyk;
Nobel laureates Peter Doherty and David Trimble;
musicians Chris de Burgh and Tito Jackson;
and Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson and Prince Christian of Denmark.
Pretty differentiated group of people. But ever since I was in a class with four other girls (well two of them were twins but fraternal) born on the same day as me I gave up on the idea that common birth date means anything. Astrology my ass, science you are not.

The most interesting was finding out Tadeusz Kościuszko died on my birthday. And with this optimistic note I will end.