Birthday meme

Apparently there is a birthday meme, which I wish I'd noticed prior to my birthday, but here goes:

I was born on August 21.

The instructions:

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

Events

• 1911 - The Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee.
• 1959 - President Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
• 2005 - Pope Benedict XVI concludes World Youth Day with a mass. Over 1,100,000+ people attended the closing liturgy.

Birthdays

• 1921 - Winnie-the-Pooh, a (fictional) bear of small brain belonging to Christopher Robin
• 1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
• 1952 - Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)

Deaths

• 1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
• 1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
• 2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)

Holiday

• Ninoy Aquino Day - special holiday in the Philippines.