memememememememe

Open up wikipedia.org and type in the month and day of your birth. Choose 3 Events, 3 births and 3 deaths from the lists:

October 20:
events-
1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years. [including my aunt's husband at the time, a screenwriter who was blacklisted]
****1955 - Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings****
1977 - A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing several band members, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines. [another day the music died - nobody gave them three steps]

births-
1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
1950 - Tom Petty, American musician

deaths-
1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

it would seem that Snoop Dog also shares my birthday, but I declined to include him on the official list, in lieu of Tom Petty.