From Leilani (long ago): Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birthdate (sans year), post three events, two births and one death.

Events:

• 480 BC – The Battle of Thermopylae, fought between 300 Spartans, led by their king, Leonidas, and the Achaemenid Empire begins.
• 1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor Norton I" of the United States.
• 1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
• 1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
• 1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
• 1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
• 1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
• 2010 – The 54 year run of the soap opera As the World Turns ends as its final episode is broadcast.

- Way too many fascinating things happened on September 17th to just pick 3.

Births:

• 1857 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
• 1928 – Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)

Death:

• 1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)