Meme; A Day In History

While waiting some files to be transferred from my laptop to bits_2_whole's I was checking blog updates and found this from chanda_m's blog:

"Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year."

And here they come!

3rd of July

Facts
1. 1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands).
2. 2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
3. 2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.

Births
1. 1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
2. 1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)

Death
1. 1971 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)

Allow me to broaden this a bit... What happened when I born?

Fact
1979 - US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

Birth
1979 - snowprincipessa

Death
1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)