Meme to go around

Taken from Jeffrey Radcliffe; search on Wikipedia with your birthday,(just the month and day) and report three events, births, and deaths, including the year. Here goes nothing:

EVENTS

1898 - The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1991 - Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana (especially the Mississippi Gulf Coast) to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,604 and costing over 75 billion dollars in damage.

BIRTHS

1936 - John McCain, American politician
1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer and songwriter
1969 - Me’Shell NdegéOcello, American singer

DEATHS

1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler
1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner
1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress