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Ganked from [livejournal.com profile] oxymoron67: Enter your birthdate (just month and day) at Wikipedia, then choose 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Events:
1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris.

1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.

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.

1942 - Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.

Births:
1656 (O.S.) - Edmond Halley, English astronomer (d. 1742)

1938 - Ralph Bakshi, Israeli cartoonist

1942 - Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995)

Deaths:
1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)

2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)

Holiday:
Turkey - Republic Day (1923)

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