Mindless Fun - Stolen From wendy...
Wikipedia your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday:
Events:
1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1978 - Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.
1987 - King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.
1999 - In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses
Births:
1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer
1901 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster
1946 - Alan Dean Foster, American author
Deaths:
1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader
2002 - James Coburn, American actor
Observance:
United Nations World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
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No so mindless -- what people pick says a lot about them.