Just Fantastic.

[bjarvis]

Apparently, my birthday coincides with a number of other celebrity birthdays & events... wonkette provides the following:

• Beelzebub VP Dick Cheney (1941), Phil Collins (1951) born.
  
• First brawl on the House floor, 1798.
  
• Jackhammer patented, 1894.
  
• Mahatma Ghandi murdered, 1948.
  
• "The women’s singles U.S. figure skating championship was won by Carol Heiss," 1960.
  
• Beatles final live performance broken up by the cops, 1969.
  
• Michael Bolton hits No. 1, 1990.
  
• Oliver Cromwell executed after being dead for two years, 1661.
  
• Adolf Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany, 1933.
  
• 7,000 Jews murdered by Nazis in Letychiv, Ukraine, 1943.
  
• Tet Offensive begins, 1968.
  
• Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday: 14 civil rights protesters murdered by British paratroopers, 1972.