Sweetly B Squared

Just cuz Kate said so, here's 3 cool events, 2 births, one death and one holiday from my birthday (June 13) per Wikipedia.

EVENTS:

• 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• 1920 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.
• 1997 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

BIRTHS:

• 1865 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
• 1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics

DEATH:

• 1918 - Tsar Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (b. 1878)

HOLIDAY:

• Roman Empire – Quinquatrus Minusculae held in honor of Minerva