Saw this over at The Other Side Of Kim and figured I would give it a try. (Here are his results.)

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your blog, including the year.

Here is what I got for my birthday, September 1.

Events: I chose 4, because I couldn't pick just 3.
5509 BC - The world was created, according to the Byzantine Empire.

1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.

1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Polish September Campaign.)

1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.


Births
1923 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)

1950 - Dr. Phil, American television talk show host

Deaths
1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Author of Unix Network Programming and several books and IETF RFC documents (b. 1951)