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

EVENTS:

529 BC - The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder.

1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris.

1922 - The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.

1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday," ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

BIRTHS:

1735 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)

1957 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor, Best known as the voice of Homer Simpson


DEATHS:

1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554)

1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)


HOLIDAY:

Turkey - Republic Day (1923)

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