Birthday Meme

I was tagged by Michelle to play this little birthday meme thing. So here goes.

Here's how you play:

1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)

My birthday is September 9th.

3 events:

1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States (the United States didn't become a country until the ratification of the Constitution).
1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

2 important birthdays:

1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor

1 death:

1087 - William the Conqueror

Holiday/observance:

Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku).


I tag Melissa and Robin. Have fun!