Birthday bit...borrowed from Diana

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.

July 1

3 Neat Facts (there are all kinds of neat-o Canadian things happening because this is also Canada Day):
1963 - ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
2004 - Saturn Orbit Insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT.

2 births (this is a hard one to narrow down:
1941 - Twyla Tharp, American choreographer
1951 - Fred Schneider, American keyboardist (The B-52's)

And a death (also a hard choice, except that there is one stand-out):
1566 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)