Nickd from fuzzface00.....
The original meme: Look up three (3) events, two (2) births, and one (1) death for your birthday on Wikipedia.
as done by me: most personally interesting event, births and deaths.

Events

* 337 - Julius I is elected pope.
* 1778 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
* 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
* 1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
* 1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
* 1862 - American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry.
* 1922 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
* 1951 - The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
* 1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
* 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
* 1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
* 1985 - Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer.
* 1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
* 2005 - Jerrick De Leon, born 13 weeks premature, becomes the world's smallest infant to survive an open-heart procedure called an arterial switch.

Births

* 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (d. 1593)
* 1577 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (d. 1599)
* 1608 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
* 1611 - Chongzhen, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
* 1639 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
* 1664 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d, 1703)
* 1665 - Queen Anne of England (d. 1714))
* 1748 - Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
* 1756 - Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
* 1887 - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
* 1895 - Babe Ruth, baseball player (d. 1948)
* 1897 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster, head of Murder, Inc. (d. 1944)
* 1901 - Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
* 1905 - Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
* 1910 - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
* 1910 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
* 1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
* 1912 - Eva Braun, German mistress of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
* 1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
* 1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian actress
* 1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author
* 1922 - Patrick Macnee, British actor
* 1922 - Denis Norden, British television abd radio personality and scriptwriter
* 1929 - Pierre Brice, French actor
* 1931 - Rip Torn, American actor and director
* 1931 - Mamie Van Doren, American actress
* 1932 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
* 1939 - Mike Farrell, American actor
* 1940 - Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman
* 1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
* 1944 - Michael Tucker, American actor
* 1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1981)
* 1950 - Natalie Cole, American singer
* 1954 - Argusto Emfazie, American occultist and author
* 1957 - Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian
* 1957 - Robert Townsend, American comedian, actor, director, and producer
* 1958 - Barry Miller, American actor
* 1960 - Megan Gallagher, American actress
* 1962 - Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
* 1966 - Rick Astley, British singer
* 1983 - Myron Wolf Child, Politican & Author
* 1987 - Dan-Michael Johnsen, Norwegian football player, actor and singer

Deaths

* 891 - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople
* 1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, queen of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
* 1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
* 1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
* 1740 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
* 1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
* 1952 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
* 1989 - Chris Gueffroy, last person killed escaping over the Berlin wall (b. 1968)
* 1991 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
* 1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
* 1994 - Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
* 1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
* 1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)