Me meme

I read this meme over at All The Pretty Words and at vanlal’s lj and decided to do it too. If nothing else, at least I’ll learn something! 😀

The Instructions:

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. Post it.

My birthday is on the 16th of September

Events:

• 1597 – Yi Sun-sin leads 12 ships of the Korean fleet against an invasion by 133 Japanese ships. The Koreans sink 31 enemy ships and force a Japanese retreat.
• 1941 – Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupy Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
• 1956 – Play-Doh is introduced to the world

Births:

• 1893 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1925 – B. B. King, American musician

Deaths:

• 1932 – Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)

Anyone reading this, consider yourself tagged! (Oh and leave a comment with a link to your post please?)