What do all these people share in common?
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- Chris Brown
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- Randall Gay
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- Dieter Brummer
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- Glenn Seton
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- Richard E Grant
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- Bill Ward
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- John Rhys-Davies
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- Michael Palin
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- Tammy Wynette
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- Lance Henriksen
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- Blind Willie McTell
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- Karl Marx
Well, for starters they all share a birthday with my wife! And also… uhm… nope, that’s about it.
Besides all these people’s parents making whoopee in the middle of July the previous year, a few other things happened on the 5th of May:
- Kublai Khan became ruler of the Mongol Empire in 1260
- Napoleon died in 1821
- Mexican troops halted a French invasion in 1862
- Coco Chanel introduced Number 5 in 1921 (Later to be followed by Six)
- Alan Shepard became the second man in space in 1961
So, Happy Birthday Suzanne. Yours is indeed an historical day.