Since today picks up like a Hoover

Since I'm sick w/ a toddler super jazzed up on steroids, and because it's my birthday tomarrow....

The rules are:
1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)
6) Tag


April 1st!
3 events:
~1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
~1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
~1970 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring surgeon general's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States starting on January 1, 1971.

2 Birthdays:
~1974 - Richard Christy, American drummer
~Bijou Phillips, American actress (same year as me)

1 Death:
~ Scott Joplin, American musician and composer

One holiday or observance:
~April 1 is known as April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day in many countries.
~Japan - The official start of school years in most universities and schools. Also, the official first day of work at companies and offices for new university graduates hires, marked by welcoming ceremonies and speeches.