Wiki Birthdate Meme

Seen first in bookishfellow's LJ:

Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birth date but not the year. List three neat events, three births and three deaths, include the year.

January 17

Events:
1950 - The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
1994 - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
1995 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake (known as "the Great Hanshin earthquake" hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,433 people.

Births:
1463 - Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
1706 - Benjamin Franklin
1899 - Al Capone

Deaths:
1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
1861 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1964 - T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)

In short, a good day for scholars and robbers, not a good day for natural disasters or adventurers, or T.H. White.