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From paladincub21:

Go to wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat facts, two births, and two deaths and one holiday/observance in your journal including the year (of the event, not your birth)!

September 6

Facts
3114 BC - On this date in the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.
1997 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.
2005 - The California Legislature becomes the first legislative body in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage without a pre-emptive judicial order to do so. 

Births
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
1958 - Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and author

Deaths
1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)

Observance
Swaziland - Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1968)