Birthday Meme

This one has been going around a while but I never got around to doing it.

The instructions:

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. One holiday or observance (if any).

My birthday: July 29

Three events:

1. 1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.  (editor's note: and yet today we can't typically go a week without restarting our computers)
2. 1954 - The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings, is published in the UK. (formative reading in grade school)
3. 2005 - Astronomers discover 10th planet. (we'll find out in September if this gets official planet status. Will it keep the name 'Xena' ?)

Two births:

1. 1972 - Wil Wheaton, American actor
2. 1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)

One death:

1. 1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)

One holiday/observance:

1. Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session