Following Gene

Emulating Gene Bob: Cause I’m a follower:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts/events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
Events:
– 732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
– 1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
– 1979 – The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
Births:
– 1930 – Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
– 1959 – Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
Deaths:
– 1979 – Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
Bonus fact:
– 1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.