Birthday Meme

Still sick... will catch up with the comments and mail as soon as I'm completely well. So, having said that, here's another meme:

Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.

NOVEMBER 9

Events:

1620 - Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

1921 - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.

1967 - First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.

1989 - Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.

Births:

1973 - Nick Lachey, American singer

1980 - Vanessa Minnillo, Filipino television personality (hey, didn't she date Nick Lachey?)

1988 - Nikki Blonsky, American actress

Deaths:

959 - Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)

1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)

Holiday:

World Freedom Day (United States)