stolen meme time

snagged this from the apathetic one. enjoy.

1. Go to Wikipedia and enter your birthday without the year:
- August 17

2. List three events that occurred that day:
- 1863 - American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
- 1943 - World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
- 1969 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.

3. List two important birthdays:
- 1473 - Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?)
- 1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)

4. List one death:
- 1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894)
bonus: 1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality

5. List one holiday or observance:
- Roman Empire - Portunalia in honor of Portunes.