wikimeme

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

Events

1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position

1972 - Project Apollo: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.

1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.

Births
1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618) (That sucks.  Fuck that guy.) 
1915 - Edith Piaf, French singer and actress

Deaths
1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England