11 Feb

From plhu's blog:

A Wikipedia birthday meme:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

3 Events
1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
1889 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890
1999 - Pluto, a planet with an irregular orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet furthest from the sun. It had been the eighth furthest since 1979

2 Births
1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and businessman (d. 1931)
1962 - Sheryl Crow, American singer/songwriter, musician

1 Death
1650 - René Descartes, French philosopher (b. 1596)