november 7th

few interesting things that happened to occur on the same day as my birthday:

~ 1837 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
~ 1867 - Birth of Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)
~ 1888 - Birth of Sir C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
~ 1927 - Birth of Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive, Ex Nintendo President
~ 1960 - Death of Tommy Thayer, KISS lead guitarist
~ 1962 - Death of Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
~ 1962 - Richard M. Nixon loses the gubernatorial election in the U.S. state of California. In his concession speech, he states that this is his "last press conference" and that "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more".
~ 1963 - Birth of John Barnes, English footballer <--- that liverpool sonuva---
~ 1973 - Birth of Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress <--- hot asian chick from LOST.
~ 1978 - Birth of Rio Ferdinand, English footballer <--- that manchester united sonuva---
~ 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.

two physicists and two footballing bastards were born on my birthday. how about myself as a bastard physicist?