On This Day in History...

Events:
330 - Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
1960 - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
1987 - The first heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore, Maryland)
1997 - IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.

Births:
1571 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)
1722 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789)
1888 - Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
1904 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan painter (d. 1989)
1957 - Peter North, Canadian porn star

Deaths:
1708 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
1778 - William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
1960 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)

On this day in 1981 I was born. I was baby no. 5 for my family and the first girl. I was born just before 11 pm at night, just in time to make the 11:00 o’clock news as my father is fond of saying. My mother say’s that I was the best Mothers Day present she could have asked for. Every couple of years I have to share my birthday with Mother’s Day and now that I’m older I don’t mind at all.

Is it wrong that I’m more impressed with the list of people who died on my birthday, than the list of people who were born on my birthday?