Happy birthday, me. Some wikipedia findings on this momentous day.

Events:

• 1917 - The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States.
• 1936 - Charlie Chaplin releases the last movie of the silent film era, Modern Times.
• 1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
• 1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1945 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
• 1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
• 2003 - U.S. plan to invade Iraq: Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq.

Other people who share my birthday:

• 976 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017)
• 1840 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (Maxim gun) (d. 1916) (this is the guy who invented the automatic machine gun)
  
• 1943 - Michael Mann, American film director
• 1948 - Christopher Guest, American actor
• 1954 - Cliff Martinez, American musician
• 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
• 1964 - Laura Linney, American actress
• 1969 - Bobby Brown, American singer
• 1975 - Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer
• 1984 - Carlos Tévez, Argentinine footballer
• 1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer

And this is the guy who died on the same day that I was born on:

• 1984 - Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta "Santo", Mexican wrestler and film actor (b. 1917)