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That Wikipedia Birth Date Thing:
- Search your birthdate in Wikipedia (month and day only, not year)
- List 3 interesting things that happened in history that day, 2 births, and 1 death.

On this day in history:
1) Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis get a patent for blue denim jeans with copper rivets (1873)
2) Charles Lindbergh takes off from Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo nonstop transatlantic flight (1927)
3) Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland on the world's first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a female pilot (1932)

These people were born:
1) John Stuart Mill (1806)
2) Cher (1946)

These people died
1) Christopher Columbus (1506)
2) Stephen Jay Gould (2002)