Wikipedia meme

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Yah, I'm actually posting :). And yes, I did a few more than the 'required' ones, hadn't known about Durant or Leigh, and I just found some of the others interesting:

Events
1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building. Fawkes was later hanged, drawn and quartered for his role in the conspiracy. (And this date is now a holiday in England where they have bonfires and burn Fawkes in effigy).

1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.

1935 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.

Births
1722 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (d. 1798)
1885 - Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)

Deaths
1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)

EDIT: note, Wikipedia originally had James I of England dying on this date in 1605. NOT!

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Deaths
1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)

what's funny is that she was born on my birthday...