hopping down the meme trail

[bunrab]

Saw this first from elfbiter and now it seems like everyone's doing it:
Go to Wikipedia. Find your birthday. Pick 3 events, 2 births, and one death.
1781 - Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American Revolutionary War.
1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1987 - (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%.
Births:
1720 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
1895 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990)
Death:
727 - Saint Frideswide

(That last is relevant because I am a big fan of Margaret Frazer's "Sister Frevisse" mysteries.)