(happy birthday to) MEME! - The Birthday Meme

Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (Month and Day only) and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.

On May 4th:

3 Events:

• 1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica.
• 1919 - May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, open fire killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.

Births

• 1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
• 1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (d. 1993)

Holiday

• Japan - Greenery Day