Preppy Girl's Guide

Thanks to Stinkpaw for the following meme. Here goes:

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).
6. Tag 5 more peoples - if you feel like it.

June 24

3 EVENTS

1. 1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
2. 1880 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
3. 1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

2 BIRTHDAYS

1. 1942 - Mick Fleetwood, musician (Fleetwood Mac)
2. 1947 - Peter Weller, American actor (ROBO COP!)

1 DEATH

1. 1987 - Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (b. 1916)

HOLIDAYS

1. Fête nationale du Québec, also called St-Jean-Baptiste Day
2. Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821)

How fun. I won't tag anyone but feel free to Wikimeme yourself!