By Request - 3 events, two births, and one death that happened on my birthday.

Type your birthday into wikipedia if you want to play along.

Events:
1903 - The Wright Brothers make the first powered heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

1989 - The first episode of The Simpsons airs on FOX.

2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is released worldwide.
(and I took my kids out of school to go see it, don't tell the truant officer)

Births:
1770 - (Baptism) - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer
1946 - Eugene Levy, Canadian actor

Death:
1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, British writer (b. 1893)