via: Andrew Wheeler

Instructions: enter your birthdate into Wikipedia (without year), then post three events, two births and one death.  I thought I’d put a little spin on the meme, by trying to relate my entries to SF/fantasy.

Events:

1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.

1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).

1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.

Births:

1965 – J. K. Rowling, English novelist / 1980 – Harry Potter, fictional protagonist of J.K. Rowling‘s series Harry Potter

1966 – Dean Cain, American actor (played Superman in the TV show, Lois & Clark)

Death:

2001 – Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)