All About My Birthday

Thanks to Liza for this fun little Wikipedia game...

The goal is to come up with three events, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday. So here goes for August 31...

3 Events

• 1864 - American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1886 - Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina
• 1897 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

2 Births (I guess I can't just use my own...)

• 1935 - Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998)
• 1949 - Richard Gere, American actor

1 Death

• 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris.