On this date

Normally, those fads that go around in blogs, where you do some Internet quiz and post the results and encourage people to do the same and that's it, just annoy me. But I saw one in a friend's blog that interested me because it has an amusingly subtle form of self-expression hidden within it, if you do it that way, that is. Feed your birthday into Wikipedia, then pick three events, three births, and three deaths from the resulting lists. The self-expression, of course, is in the selection. Here's mine:

July 9

Events

• 1793 - Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
  
• 1900 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
  
• 1955 - The Russell-Einstein Manifesto was released by Bertrand Russell in London.
  

Births

• 1819 - Elias Howe, American inventor (d. 1867)
  
• 1938 - Brian Dennehy, American actor
  
• 2005 - Tai Shan, giant panda born at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
  

Deaths

• 1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
  
• 1880 - Paul Pierre Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
  
• 1974 - Earl Warren, Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891)