Oh happy day

Jenny tagged me with this meme thingie. I had a pretty good time reading about all the strange things that have happened on my birthday. These are some of the more noteworthy happenings.

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

My birthday: March 10th

Events
1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

Birthdays
1940 - Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
1957 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist

Death
1913 - Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)

Holiday
Fans of video game character Mario celebrate Mar10 Day, by singing songs about him, watching the movie and show, and playing Mario games.


Wow. It has all the trimmings of a major motion picture. An American icon, a villanous terrorist, a freedom fighter, a bursting bubble, new territories, other worlds and a mushroom munching super plumber. My birthday rocks! There were a bunch of earthquakes on that day, too. My birthday really rocks!