Playing off a meme from Rant Fever (via Kim du Toit, via Tim Worstall), but using today’s date rather than my own birthdate:

Go to Wikipedia, look up your birthday today’s date (without the year), and post three events, two births and one death (including the year they ocurred)

Events:

• 1906 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9, destroys much of San Francisco, California.
• 1923 – Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built”, opens.
• 1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.

Births:

• 1857 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney (d. 1938)
• 1947 – James Woods, American actor and poker player
• 1954 – Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian

Deaths:

• 1955 – Albert Einstein, German-born Jewish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)