November 10

I saw someone else do this on another blog and thought it was interesting, so I'm doing it too. Look up your date of birth on Wikipedia (month & day); choose 4 events, 3 birthdays, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday. (I only chose the ones I thought were more interesting).

Events:
a) 1520 - Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
b) 1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
c) 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
d) 1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.

Births:
a) 1483 - Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer (d. 1546)
b) 1697 - William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)
c) 1728 - Oliver Goldsmith, English playwright (d. 1774)

Deaths:
a) 1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
b) 2007 - Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)

Holiday:
Turkey - Day of Remembrance of Ataturk

P.S. Joanna, consider yourself tagged.