Look up the date of your birthday in Wikipedia. From the date page, pick three interesting historical events that occurred on that date, two births, and one death.

Events

1919 - Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
1942 - Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
1999 - Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.

Births

1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
1959 - Adrian Paul, English actor

Death

2007 - Posteal Laskey, American convicted murderer widely believed to be the Cincinnati Strangler, of natural causes (b. 1938)

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