interesting facts

So today I Wikipediaed my birthday. That's how much I love my job. I spend my day looking up random stuff on Wikipedia. Here are some interesting facts about January 29:

1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
1959 - Sleeping Beauty, an animated feature produced by Walt Disney based upon a fairy tale, was first released.
1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.

And people with the same birthday as me:

1945 - Tom Selleck
1952 - Tommy Ramone
1954 - Oprah Winfrey
1965 - Dominik Hasek
1970 - Heather Graham
1981 - Jonny Lang

I am especially happy about the Romeo and Juliet thing. First performed on my birthday? And The Raven? That's fantastic.