my birthday in history

I saw on someone else's blog to give this a try:

Look up your birthday (month and date but not year) on Wickipedia. Find three important things that happened, two births, and one death on your birthday.

Since my birthday is Octover 17 here we go:

fun things:

538 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration

1781 - General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionaries at Yorktown, Virginia

1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

 

births:

1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)

1972 - Eminem, American rapper

 

one death:

1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)