Birthday Meme
Go to Wikipedia, look up your birth day (minus year), and chose 3 facts, 2 births and a death.

October 9:

Events:
1000 - Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America.
1871 - The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.

Births:
1585 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)

Death:
1958 - Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)