Chiefbiscuit from as it happens has tagged me for 'What Happened on Your Birthday'? This entails going to Wikipedia to find 3 events, 2 birthdays, 1 death and 1 holiday that happened on your birth date - that is, month and date (not necessarily the same year). Then you must tag 5 other bloggers.

On my birthday: 23rd September
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• 1642 - First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.

1884 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.

2002 - Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix) web browser is born: version 0.1.

Shared b'days:
480 BC - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer

died:
Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

Holiday:
n 2006, Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) fell on this day, beginning at sunset the evening before.

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