Wiki Birthday Meme

Yeah so
I'm not so good at following directions

anyway the goods on me birthday:

Events
1540 - The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1787 - The United States Constitution is delivered to the states for ratification.
1821 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1940 - The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
1983 - Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
1998 - Google is first established

Births
1601 - King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
1722 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (d. 1803)
1947 - Meat Loaf, American singer and actor
1965 - Peter MacKay, Canadian political leader
1975 - Plural, The Alpha & the Omega
1984 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer and songwriter

Deaths
1249 - Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
1557 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
1590 - Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
1651 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
1660 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (b. 1580)
1700 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
1917 - Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
1967 - Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)