I got this from my friend Jamie.

The Rules:
1. Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2. List three interesting events, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday

My birthday is on October 29, 1979.

Events

1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of ‘29 or “Black Tuesday,” ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
2007 – Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Births

1875 – Marie of Edinburgh, queen of Romania (d. 1938)
1967 – Rufus Sewell, English actor

Deaths

1971 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)